Senior Backend Engineer, APIs

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position

RPP Systems is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer, APIs position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chandler once a quarter, travel covered. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• 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.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Pluses

• Terraform or Pulumi.

Benefits

The salary range for this role is $94.50-$116.00 an hour. This range reflects base salary only.

• Referral program.
• Home office stipend.

RPP Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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