Senior Backend Engineer (Payments)

Revenue comes from a mix of advertising, affiliate commissions and a premium tier. Since 2014, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards.

Thistletrack is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer (Payments) position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote within Spain. The team meets in Palma once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Main duties

Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

What we're looking for

5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Desirable

Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems. NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB. Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Why work with us

Private health insurance. Meal vouchers. Training budget. Remote work allowance.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Spain.

Start: Flexible.

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