SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER

Job Description/Skills:
Location: This position is remote in the US (cannot work outside of the US).   

What You’ll Do

• Champion the design, development, and delivery of cloud-native orchestration services supporting internal systems and vendor platforms
• Define and evolve API contracts (REST, GraphQL), JSON schemas, event contracts and canonical structures, with an emphasis on scalability, performance, and observability
• Contribute to architectural decisions, particularly around microservices, API-to-API, events, webservices/webhooks, in a real-world production context
• Develop a strong understanding of the business processes and logic the orchestration layer supports
• Design and implement data publishing workflows to support operational and analytical data needs, evolving as necessary
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product owners, architects, analysts to translate business needs into working software
• Contribute to the full service lifecycle—from development and CI/CD to infrastructure and deployment
• Champion observability practices including structured logging, monitoring, and instrumentation (Datadog or AWS Cloudwatch experience preferred)
• Drive engineering excellence by leading design reviews, contributing to post-mortems, and documenting key decisions and patterns
• Proactively manage technical debt and enable platform scalability through thoughtful system design and domain ownership

Who You Are

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including leadership of complex projects or services, 3+ years working with cloud serverless and orchestration services (AWS preferred – Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, EventBridge, etc; similar experience in GCP or Azure will be considered)
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field?
• Strong proficiency in modern backend languages/frameworks with cloud SDK support (Node/Typescript, NestJS, Python), experience writing helper functions/data transformations python or similar
• Experience building, integrating with ETL pipelines
• Solid grasp of event-driven architectures, patterns, enrichment, and production-ready design considerations
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, YAML)
• Experienced in Agile, flexible working culture, delivering solutions in both a ‘0 to 1’ manner, and in small iterations
• Ability to independently set up services, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure with secure authentication
• Experience designing systems that publish to an ODS or similar analytical data store, with attention to event durability, schema evolution, and downstream data consumer needs
• Self-directed and adaptable—able to work effectively in greenfield environments, understand how to take a prototyped system or feature to production
• Passionate about mentoring, documenting, and fostering a culture of ownership and excellence
• Experience in insurance or financial technology services is a plus
• Some familiarity with Salesforce development is a plus

Our Client’s Environment

• Lean, fully remote team with members across U.S. time zones
• Greenfield development on AWS in the Group Insurance Claims space – you won’t be retrofitting legacy systems or inheriting old codebases
• The company uses JS, Java, C#, Typescript, Python services deployed onto AWS infrastructure widely
• CI/CD powered by Azure DevOps Pipelines; infrastructure managed through AWS CDK and declarative templates
• They value curiosity, collaboration, and creativity—engineers here level up the team, not just the tech

Pay Range:$70.00 – $75.00 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.