Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Evolve

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado, New York

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💰 $141,000 - $184,000 per year

Senior

AWSDynamoDBGoKubernetesNode.jsTerraform

About the role

Build and maintain our APIs and integrations with upstream and downstream consumers in mind
Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in backend development tools and technologies
Lead ecosystem-level design reviews, perform architecture reviews, and write technical documentation in collaboration with peers
Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, monitoring, and testability
Work directly with an Engineering Manager and Product Manager(s) to clearly understand the problem being solved
Collaborate with stakeholders from internal operations teams as well as external integration partners
Effectively debug high complexity multi-system problems and come up with good-better-best solutions
Execute on engineering and release priorities successfully through strong leadership and communication
Drive code reviews and collaborate with other team members on coding standards and best practices, third-party integrations, and other backend development processes
Guide and mentor less experienced developers on best practices and operational excellence

5+ years of backend development experience building applications in Go, NodeJS, and integrations with 3rd Party tools, APIs, and other services
Experience with designing and documenting architecture decisions
Experience with AWS services such as Kubernetes, Lambdas, Eventbridge, RDS, DynamoDB
Experience with IaC e.g. Terraform, and have collaborated with DevOps to maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines
Solid software engineering fundamentals and committed to mentoring less experienced engineers
Independent and proactive at finding and fixing issues
Excellent giver and receiver of constructive code review feedback
Experience with Agile development process
You have a knack for finding solutions to problems - and using a full arsenal of debugging tools
You have built your own custom tools to help you automate tasks
Experience with Git version control and repository management in Gitlab