Senior Backend Engineer - APIs

We know our clients well, often three generations of the same family. We are adding a Senior Backend Engineer - APIs to our operations team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote position. Most of the team is in El Paso, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

• 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
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

You'll need:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

We offer health insurance, 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%, paid time off and gym membership reimbursement.

Start: Within 30 days.

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