Back-End Software Engineer

Headquartered in Miami, the company runs operations centers in Florida and two other locations. Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. The office closes early the day before major holidays.

Overview:

Canalreach has an opening for a Back-End Software Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Job duties:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

What you need:

• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Compensation: $151,000 - $189,000 annually

Benefits:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canalreach.