Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

About us:

Headquartered in Omaha, the company runs operations centres in Nebraska and two other locations. Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across the US. We started in 1984 and have grown to about 8,600 people. Compliance reviews outgoing client email, so expect to write carefully.

The position:

We are adding a Senior Backend Engineer - Payments to our operations team. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Our headquarters is in Omaha, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in Mexico. Salary is paid monthly in Mexican pesos. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Your responsibilities:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

About you:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Desirable:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Pay and benefits:

• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Monthly internet allowance
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Performance bonus

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Kim Asset Management.