Software Engineering
Senior Backend Engineer
St. Louis, MO
$139,000 to $177,000 a year
The employer is an applied machine learning company serving insurance and financial services clients.
The employer is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in St. Louis, MO. 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 St. Louis office.
What you’ll do
- Build asynchronous processing with message queues and streaming systems
- Own services end to end, including deployment, monitoring and on-call
- Design and operate APIs and data pipelines that power customer-facing products
- Improve test coverage and release safety for critical services
- 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
- Experience operating services in a cloud environment
- Experience building back-end services in Go, Java, Python or a similar language
- Strong understanding of relational data modeling
- A track record of leading projects from scope through delivery
Nice to have
- Background in high-throughput or low-latency systems
- Experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms
Compensation and benefits
The pay range for this position in St. Louis, MO is $139,000 – $177,000 per year. Final pay depends on experience, skills and qualifications.
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness stipend
- Annual professional development and certification budget
- Paid professional licensing and society memberships
- Annual performance bonus
- Paid parental leave
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.
