Senior Back-End Developer, Remote

Newark Lending manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices. Headquartered in Newark, the company runs operations centers in New Jersey and two other locations.

About the role:

We're looking for a Senior Back-End Developer, Remote to join our team. This is a remote role. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within the US. The team meets in Newark once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Job duties:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• 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.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Preferred qualifications:

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

$205,000 - $265,000/year

Perks and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Home office stipend.
• Professional development budget.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Flexible spending account.

Newark Lending is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Start: Flexible.

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