Backend Engineer - Kotlin

Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies.

Job summary:

We need a Backend Engineer - Kotlin. This is a full-time position based in New York City, New York. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Hybrid, with three days a week in our New York City office.

Main duties:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred qualifications:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Salary: $164,000 - $220,000 a year

Perks and benefits:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Profit sharing

Dunmore provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Within 30 days.

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