Senior Backend Engineer

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

About the role:

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote, open to candidates across the US.

What you'll do:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

What you need:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• 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.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

What you get:

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid sick leave.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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