Software Engineering
Senior Backend Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
$183,000 to $232,000 a year
The employer is a data platform company that helps logistics firms track shipments in real time.
The employer is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in Los Angeles, CA. In this role you will lead technical work alongside an experienced software engineering team and take real ownership of your work. This is a full-time, permanent position. This role is hybrid, with three days a week in our Los Angeles office.
What you’ll do
- Own services end to end, including deployment, monitoring and on-call
- Design and operate APIs and data pipelines that power customer-facing products
- Build asynchronous processing with message queues and streaming systems
- Write design documents and weigh trade-offs with the wider engineering group
- Improve test coverage and release safety for critical services
- Model data and tune queries for PostgreSQL and other data stores
- Mentor junior engineers and review their work
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Strong understanding of relational data modeling
- Experience building back-end services in Go, Java, Python or a similar language
- Clear written communication for design reviews
- A track record of leading projects from scope through delivery
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms
Compensation and benefits
The pay range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $183,000 – $232,000 per year. Final pay depends on experience, skills and qualifications.
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings account with employer contribution
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Annual professional development and certification budget
- Annual performance bonus
The employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
