Senior Backend Engineer & Technical Lead — Remote (1099)

Friends From The City LLC

New York (NY)

Remote

USD 292,272,000 - 395,426,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Friends From The City LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer / Technical Lead for a contingent, remote role focused on modernizing public-sector APIs. You will architect and deliver production-grade backend services in AWS, interfacing with diverse systems while maintaining security and reliability.

The role emphasizes leadership, design of scalable data models, and strong collaboration with product, design and policy teams.

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Architecting and owning production backend APIs.
Experience deploying and operating backend services in AWS.
Strong RESTful API design and systems integration experience.
CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Experience implementing security controls for sensitive data.

Responsibilities

Architect and develop production-grade REST APIs and backend services.
Integrate services with multiple existing systems and external data sources.
Translate complex business and policy rules into maintainable application logic.
Design SQL data models and integration patterns.
Establish API contracts, versioning, error handling, retry, and resiliency patterns.
Implement automated unit, integration, end-to-end, and load testing.
Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and production observability.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
Collaborate with product, design, policy, and external technical teams.