Senior Backend Engineer, Data Services

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead a stream of work from design, testing, implementation, and maintenance once releasedImplement new features.
• Design and develop fault-tolerant, user features backed by multiple services.
• Work closely with product and business owners to collaborate on requirements
• Write infrastructure code, and work with DevOps to validate production changes
• Embrace an environment that is changing quickly by learning new things and contributing new ideas
• Mentor other engineers, effectively communicate complex systems simply
• Contribute to overall engineering initiatives including recruiting and the evolution of our tech stack
• Build highly scalable distributed services that can process millions of events daily as our company on-boards the nation’s largest banks.
• Design and implement new components and features in our platform.
• Write high-quality unit tested code that will run in our continuous delivery pipeline.
• Own work-streams end to end

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Insatiable desire for continuous learning and continuous improvement
• Great interpersonal skills, and you enjoy working with members of other teams.
• 5+ years of programming experience with a proficiency in Scala or Java or GoLang
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming solutions such as kafka
• Experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex systems
• Proficient in object oriented modeling and functional programming
• Demonstrated success in shipping backend rock-solid API systems in Python, especially using RESTful techniques
• High quality software deliverables via rigorous testing such as Test Driven Development 
• Strong hands on experience in cloud technology

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience