Senior Backend Engineer

About Cotter HQ

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What this job is

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote position. Most of the team is in Los Angeles, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Day to day

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

What you bring

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Preferred

• Terraform or Pulumi

Pay and benefits

Pay: $184,000-$205,000 a year

• Gym membership reimbursement
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid sick leave
• Stock options
• Paid time off

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Cotter HQ, LLC.