Senior Backend Developer, Remote

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.

The role

Looking for a Senior Backend Developer, Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Auckland, but nobody is required to come in. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

Main duties

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

Minimum qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Pay: $174,000 - $235,000 per annum

Benefits

• Health insurance
• KiwiSaver contributions
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year
• Flexible hours

You must have the right to work in New Zealand.

Start: Within 30 days.

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