Backend Engineer, Payments

A bit about us:

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

About the role:

Southside Data has an opening for a Backend Engineer, Payments. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Preferred:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Terraform or Pulumi

What you get:

Expected salary range: $83.50 - $99.00 an hour, plus bonus eligibility.

• Flexible spending account
• Flexible schedule

Southside Data provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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