Backend Engineer (All Levels)

Casap; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Casap in San Francisco or New York is seeking a senior backend engineer to build reliable systems and scale our platform. You will own end-to-end development, improve architecture, and guide CI/CD practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, high-performance services.

The role demands strong Go or Java production experience, system design expertise, and mentoring of junior teammates in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years focused on using Go or Java in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience working on platform teams and contributing significantly to system architecture.
• Led an end-to-end implementation of a key product feature or re-architecture/upgrading of a key platform service.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong understanding of fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and industry design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and leading project teams as the sole tech lead.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reliable backend systems, integrating them with credit card, banking, and merchant platforms for comprehensive workflow chargeback management.
• Scale and generalize the system for growth, ensuring it is highly configurable and flexible to reduce the time to go live and support a broad range of use cases.
• Architect and develop robust architectural patterns for microservices.
• Design and implement core frameworks and libraries for various backend services, promoting code reuse and maintainability.
• Take ownership of upgrading coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployed systems, backend programming languages, and third-party dependencies to enhance system performance and security.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in our platform's infrastructure and systems, implementing optimizations that enhance operational efficiency and product quality.
• Own the end-to-end development and deployment of key features, including decision-making around technology stack and system design to ensure optimal implementation.

Skills

Go

Java

System architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Go tooling

Job description

Location

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, CA or New York, NY office. Our team works in-office time on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain reliable backend systems, integrating them with credit card, banking, and merchant platforms for comprehensive workflow chargeback management.


• Scale and generalize the system for growth, ensuring it is highly configurable and flexible to reduce the time to go live and support a broad range of use cases.


• Architect and develop robust architectural patterns for microservices.


• Design and implement core frameworks and libraries for various backend services, promoting code reuse and maintainability.


• Take ownership of upgrading coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployed systems, backend programming languages, and third-party dependencies to enhance system performance and security.


• Proactively identify areas for improvement in our platform's infrastructure and systems, implementing optimizations that enhance operational efficiency and product quality.


• Own the end-to-end development and deployment of key features, including decision-making around technology stack and system design to ensure optimal implementation.

What You’ve Done

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years focused on using Go or Java in production environments.


• Demonstrated experience working on platform teams and contributing significantly to system architecture.


• Led an end-to-end implementation of a key product feature or re-architecture/upgrading of a key platform service.


• Excellent problem-solving skills with a strong understanding of fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and industry design patterns.


• Experience mentoring junior team members and leading project teams as the sole tech lead.


• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.