Lead Backend Engineer - Remote

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

The role

BHH Apps is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer - Remote to join a small, steady team. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We are headquartered in New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Job duties

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Preferred qualifications

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Pay: $2,700 - $3,600/month

Perks and benefits

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Company laptop.
• Paid time off.
• Paid in USD.

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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