Senior Backend Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Tucson since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2002, we now have 930 employees.

Position summary:

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. The Partner Integrations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Your responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Rate: $191,000 - $230,000 annually

Benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid sick leave.
• Flexible spending account.
• Referral program.
• Paid parental leave.

Yeager Data provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

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