Senior Backend Engineer

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 840 people. Since 1994, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

The position

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. Green Valley Investment Partners is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Minimum qualifications

• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Preferred

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

What we offer

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

Green Valley Investment Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Green Valley Investment Partners.