Backend Engineer

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 1,600 people.

About the role

Kettleloop has an opening for a Backend Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast.

What you'll do

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Compensation: $151,000 - $205,000 annually DOE.

Benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

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

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Immediately.

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