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. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Job summary:

We are adding a Back-End Software Engineer to our Partner Integrations team. The Partner Integrations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We are headquartered in Waltham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Job duties:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Nice to have:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

What you get:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Annual rate review

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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