Back-End Software Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position:

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Duties:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Nice to have:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Compensation: $143,000-$175,000 annually DOE.

Pay and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Employee assistance program.
• Professional development budget.

RPP Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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