Backend Engineer

The company

Founded in 2005 by an advisor who left a large brokerage to go independent. We know our clients well, often three generations of the same family. Most staff have been with the firm for more than eight years.

San Antonio Financial is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from the US. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

Who you are

• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Preferred

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

Pay and benefits

Rate: $69.00 - $85.00 per hour

• Home office stipend.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at San Antonio Financial LLC.