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.