Senior Backend Developer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Fenmore Technologies employs 2,000 people across engineering hubs in Auckland and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

About the role

We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Fenmore Technologies is hiring for the Senior Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote, open to candidates across New Zealand. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• 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
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Preferred qualifications

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Terraform or Pulumi

Why work with us

• Health insurance
• KiwiSaver contributions
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year
• Flexible hours
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance programme

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fenmore Technologies Limited.