Our client, a Financial Services company, is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team remotely. This person will join the team on a contract basis at an hourly rate up to $60/hour.

Responsibilities:

• Build software as part of a nimble agile Team where you have every opportunity to make an impact on the bottom line and contribute to the architecture.
• Collaborate with our product team to ensure work coming into the scrum team is well refined and understood by the engineers.
• Ensure infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.
• Support less experienced engineers with their software development work.
• Create a brand for our platform composed of amazing APIs, Developer Portal, Tutorials and SDKs.
• Ensure our solutions are testable, intuitive, and easy to maintain.
• Use state of the art tools for remote collaboration and developer happiness, i.e., IntelliJ CodeWithMe and Tuple
• Participate in design and code reviews for key components and cross Enterprise initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Experience in backend reactive programming languages: Java 17 and/or Kotlin.
• Proven record of accomplishment developing lightweight reactive microservices: Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut or Spring Boot.
• Experience of working with stakeholders and product owners to refine upcoming Epics.
• Deep understanding of event driven architecture and messaging: Kafka, webhooks, asynchronous API design.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent relational databases.