Remote Senior Backend Engineer — FinTech APIs

Placements24; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Fully remote

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Remote Senior Software Engineer (backend) to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs for fintech products. You will join a distributed engineering team, mentor juniors, and participate in architecture discussions while upholding security and reliability standards.

The role is fully remote with flexible hours and requires strong skills in Java/Python/Go, Spring Boot/Django/Flask, and cloud/container technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/SE.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs.
• Build scalable, high-availability distributed systems.
• Write clean, well-documented, thoroughly tested code.
• Collaborate with frontend, product managers, and stakeholders to define software requirements.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex issues in production.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment.
• Adhere to security and data privacy standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and support team growth.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

C#

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud computing

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Security best practices

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Spring Boot

Django

Flask

Gin

SQL

NoSQL

ORM frameworks

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a seasoned Remote Senior Software Engineer (backend) to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs for fintech products. You will join a distributed engineering team, mentor juniors, and participate in architecture discussions while upholding security and reliability standards.

The role is fully remote with flexible hours and requires strong skills in Java/Python/Go, Spring Boot/Django/Flask, and cloud/container technologies.