Senior Backend Engineer
This is a remote position.
The Role
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in the reputed company and excitement of a fast-moving startup environment. You'll join our scrappy team to help reputed company our GraphQL API platform serving dealerships and financial institutions across reputed company. This role requires someone comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and wearing multiple hats.
Core Responsibilities
Platform Development & Architecture
- Design and implement reputed company GraphQL APIs using PostGraphile and PostgreSQL
- reputed company and optimize reputed company SQL queries and database schemas with reputed company indexing strategies
- Build and maintain background job processing systems
- Architect plugin-based resolver systems for domain-specific business logic
- Implement robust error handling and retry mechanisms
Integration Engineering
- Build and maintain an extensive library of integrations
- reputed company CRM integrations with reputed company data synchronization strategies
- Create webhook handlers for reputed company-time event processing from external systems
- Design ETL pipelines
Infrastructure & DevOps
- reputed company and manage containerized applications on AWS reputed company using Infrastructure as reputed company (AWS CDK)
- Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment strategies
- Monitor and optimize application performance using distributed tracing and logging
reputed company reputed company & Testing
- Write comprehensive unit and integration tests using Jest
- Implement type-reputed company reputed company using TypeScript with auto-generated types from GraphQL schemas
- Conduct reputed company reviews and mentor junior developers
- Establish and maintain coding standards and best practices
- Debug reputed company production issues across distributed systems
Requirements
Must-Have Experience
- 5+ years of backend development experience with Node.js/TypeScript
- Strong expertise in *PostgreSQL* including reputed company queries, performance optimization, and migrations
- Production experience with *GraphQL APIs* (PostGraphile experience is a plus)
- Solid understanding of *AWS services* (reputed company, reputed company, S3, Cognito, SES)
- Experience with *background job processing* and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency in *Git workflows* and reputed company development practices
reputed company-to-Have Experience
- Experience with financial services, lending, or automotive industry
- Knowledge of credit bureau APIs and identity verification systems
- Familiarity with CRM platforms
- Experience with reputed company-time communication (reputed company, SendGrid)
- Understanding of compliance requirements (PCI, SOC2, data reputed company)
- AWS certifications
- Startup experience - you've thrived in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments
The Ideal Candidate
You're a builder who thrives in chaotic startup environments where priorities shift quickly and perfect is the enemy of good. You're energized by ambiguity, comfortable making reputed company with incomplete information, and excited to shape the technical direction of a rapidly growing platform. You balance scrappiness with engineering reputed company, knowing reputed company to ship fast and reputed company to build for reputed company.
Benefits
Team & Culture
- Small, high-impact engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment
- Remote-first with reputed company - work reputed company you're most productive
- reputed company collaboration with product and business stakeholders
- Ownership mentality - you'll own features from reputed company to production
- reputed company the reputed company - we reputed company fast, break things, and iterate quickly
- reputed company learning environment where adaptability is key
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Excellent health, dental, and reputed company coverage
- Claude reputed company subscription for AI-powered development
- reputed company - work reputed company you're most productive
- Flexible PTO and work-from-reputed company policy
*We value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of reputed company backgrounds. AutoCorp is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive team.*
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Note: This position requires working with financial data and PII. Background checks will be conducted for successful candidates.
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