Backend Engineer, Remote

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 850 people.

Role overview:

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote within the US. The team meets in Buffalo once a quarter, travel covered. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Key responsibilities:

Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks. Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Qualifications:

2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines. Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills. Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Preferred:

Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems. Prior work breaking up a monolith. NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB. Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Compensation: $163,000 - $192,000 annually

Benefits:

Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one. 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%. Paid sick leave. Paid holidays.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at TE Lending, LLC.