Senior Backend Engineer

Envision Employment Solutions is currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for one of our partners, a global leader in the financial services.

Job Summary:
This role is focused on the full lifecycle of software development, from the initial shaping and planning of features to their implementation, maintenance, and optimization. The core mission is to develop and maintain robust, scalable, and secure backend services, collaborating with a team to build and improve user-facing features and data infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Engaging in the Shaping Phase
• Joining feature shaping sessions, before the feature is added to our development cycle.
• Contributing to Feature Flow diagrams.
• Participating in feature onboarding prior or during spring planning.
• Collaborating on Code Discovery sessions when planning the features.
• Engaging in the Shipping Phase
• Working on developing and maintaining our running services.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Debugging and squishing bugs.
• Writing tests.
• Answering adhocs during your On-call Time (addressing customer reported bugs and helping support figure out what's up).
• Working on optimizing our current services for high scale.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions (postgress, redis, elastic search, etc.).
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Implementation of security and data protection.

Requirements:

• Previous experience with Python, Javascript, or Go.
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
• Familiarity with event-driven programming.
• Previous experience with containerized solutions (i.e Docker).
• Previous experience in a production environment.
• Good knowledge of Restful API design.
• Worked with another engineer(s) on a product feature.
• Worked In an agile process (or aware and want too).
• Computer Science or similar degree background.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Depending on project understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Solid database knowledge and experience.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git).
• Experience with AWS.