Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Auctions (Remote)

Invaluable; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

100% remote work

Health care, dental, vision, and life

401(k) matching

Employee assistance plan

Paid parental leave

Profit sharing up to 20%

Job summary

Invaluable is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to deliver new features, improve performance and reliability, and shape backend standards and strategy. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners as part of a remote-first team operating across the United States.

This fully remote role supports east coast business hours and emphasizes clean, scalable backend solutions, modern tooling, and strong automated testing.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with Java and experience with one other language, either backend or frontend.
• Experience working in and improving legacy codebases, with an ability to modernize safely over time.
• Strong automated testing experience.
• Dedication to writing clean code that performs well and is easy to understand and maintain.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features end-to-end across any tier of the Invaluable platform, from implementation through testing and deployment.
• Improve quality and maintainability by refactoring legacy areas and reducing technical debt with pragmatic, incremental changes.
• Own reliability and performance: diagnose production issues, squash bugs, and improve UX with measurable outcomes.
• Drive backend architecture and standards: propose patterns, tooling, and conventions that improve developer experience and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively through pairing, code reviews, and shared problem-solving, including communicating clearly across time zones.
• Mentor and support engineers by sharing best practices, offering feedback, and helping others grow through guidance and technical leadership.
• Partner with Product and Design to clarify requirements, scope work, identify tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality user experiences.

Skills

Java

Other language (backend or frontend)

Tools

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Microservices

Job description

Invaluable is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to deliver new features, improve performance and reliability, and shape backend standards and strategy. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners as part of a remote-first team operating across the United States.

This fully remote role supports east coast business hours and emphasizes clean, scalable backend solutions, modern tooling, and strong automated testing.