Senior Platform & Backend API Engineer — Remote

SentiLink; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance for you and dependets

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Job summary

SentiLink is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance an API platform powering our products. You will work with product, engineering, and security teams across the company to deploy features and underlying systems to make our products scalable, maintainable, and secure.

You have outstanding programming skills in Golang and Python, plus experience with Docker and AWS. This is a remote US-based role with opportunities to contribute across teams and drive security-first engineering

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience building enterprise or consumer facing products.
• Experience with building API based products using Python, Golang, or similar technologies.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, and a sense of humor (enjoy the journey).
• Familiarity with: RDBMS (e.g. postgres) and ability to write efficient queries with optimal structures; Docker and AWS technologies; fintech or financial services; scrum / agile development environment.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States.

Responsibilities

• You are the owner of one large section of our codebase
• Lead the technical direction provide guidance and set the technical direction for our team, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices
• Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products
• Code, test, debug, document, and maintain products and platform using established coding standards and methodologies
• Partner with product management to drive agile delivery of both existing and new products based on project requirements.
• Ensure new software meets quality standards by writing unit, dependency, integration and end-to-end automated tests
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve product issues as they arise
• Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering

Skills

6+ years experience

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Python

Golang

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Docker

AWS

Job description

SentiLink is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance an API platform powering our products. You will work with product, engineering, and security teams across the company to deploy features and underlying systems to make our products scalable, maintainable, and secure.

You have outstanding programming skills in Golang and Python, plus experience with Docker and AWS. This is a remote US-based role with opportunities to contribute across teams and drive security-first engineering