Backend Engineer - Payments - Remote

The role:

This is a newly created position. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. O'Brien Security is hiring for the Backend Engineer - Payments - Remote position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps.

Key responsibilities:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

Who you are:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

What we offer:

Compensation: $70.50 - $84.00 an hour

• Home office stipend

A bit about us:

We are 2 people, all hands-on, and the founders still run engagements themselves.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at O'Brien Security.