Senior Backend Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The position

We are adding a Senior Backend Engineer to our Payments team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do

Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python. Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

Required qualifications

Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Nice to have

NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB. Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

The salary range for this role is $91.50 - $107.50 per hour. This range reflects base salary only.

What you get

$1,000 home office setup budget. Home office stipend.

Kestrelscale provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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