Senior Backend Engineer (Payments)

About us

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us.

What this job is

Bowerfold Labs has an opening for a Senior Backend Engineer (Payments). This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Plano office Tuesday to Thursday.

In your first few months you will

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

About you

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• 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
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Perks and benefits

$185,000 - $220,000 per year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• 11 paid holidays
• Equity
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short- and long-term disability

Start: Immediately.

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