Lead Backend Engineer

The role:

Laredo Systems is hiring for the Lead Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

In this role you will:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

Who you are:

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

What you get:

Expected salary range: $215,000-$250,000 per year, plus bonus eligibility.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Referral program.
• Annual bonus.

About the company:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Laredo, Texas and two nearshore delivery centers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Laredo Systems.