Principal Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The role:

We're looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The company is based in Waltham, the US. Our team works from several countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Nice to have:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Salary range: BAM 11,500 - BAM 15,500 monthly

Perks and benefits:

• Co-working space stipend
• Wellness allowance
• 24 days paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Company laptop
• Flexible hours

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

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