Senior Backend Engineer, Payments

Weave  ยท  via Tech Sales Jobs
๐ŸŒŽ Remote โฐ Full Time

Job Description:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices
  • Drive technical architecture and anticipate scaling and maintenance needs
  • Collaborate with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features
  • Participate in system design reviews and contribute to engineering strategy
  • Own code quality, reliability, and observability from development through production
  • Plan and execute projects from inception to delivery
  • Mentor peers and junior engineers
  • Participate in on-call rotation and escalation, supporting critical incidents
  • Establish operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes
  • Work on Weaveโ€™s payments platform, which supports healthcare practices with scheduling, payments, communication, and reviews

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C#
  • Golang preferred or willingness to learn
  • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication, including protobufs/gRPC, REST, Kafka, and Redis
  • Experience with relational databases and SQL
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and take responsibility for production systems
  • Experience deploying and maintaining services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Comfort with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling, metrics, alerts, tracing, and service reliability
  • Experience with protobufs/gRPC or Temporal
  • Experience breaking monoliths into microservices
  • Successful completion of a background check
  • Current U.S. work authorization status is requested in the application

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace
  • Reasonable accommodation for disabilities or special needs
  • AI-assisted candidate experience
  • No specific compensation extras or benefits stated