Senior Back-End Developer

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 560 people. Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company.

The position:

Charlotte Planning Group is hiring for the Senior Back-End Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote position. Most of the team is in Charlotte, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

What you need:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Nice to have:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Expected salary range: $170,000 - $235,000 a year, plus bonus eligibility.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid holidays.
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.

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

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Charlotte Planning Group.