Senior Backend Engineer - Risk Platform & Systems

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and develop scalable services powering internal and customer-facing apps. You will focus on performance, reliability, and robust data platforms, building microservices, APIs, and data pipelines that scale with our platform ecosystem.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and improve monitoring, testing, and deployment practices while collaborating with UX/UI, sensors, and operations teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of production experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Advanced programming in Golang and Python, with REST API design.
• Proven microservices experience and distributed communication patterns.
• Strong cloud infra knowledge across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Solid distributed systems understanding: concurrency, caching, sharding.
• Kafka experience for messaging and monitoring data pipelines.
• AI technologies usage to enhance decision-making and workflows.
• PostgreSQL and Redis in distributed environments.
• Experience debugging complex distributed architectures and code reviews.
• Mentor juniors and contribute to technical decisions.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services powering internal and customer-facing apps.
• Create intuitive utilities and APIs that integrate with the platform ecosystem.
• Architect supporting systems including databases, data pipelines, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with UX/UI, Sensors, and other teams and document interfaces.
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and maintain high availability for production.
• Drive architectural improvements and optimize performance and user experience.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering decisions.
• Ensure robust service operations with proactive maintenance and incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Mentoring

Performance optimization

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Golang

Python

REST APIs

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and develop scalable services powering internal and customer-facing apps. You will focus on performance, reliability, and robust data platforms, building microservices, APIs, and data pipelines that scale with our platform ecosystem.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and improve monitoring, testing, and deployment practices while collaborating with UX/UI, sensors, and operations teams to ensure