Principal Backend Engineer

3 weeks ago


New York, United States GMS Advisors Full time

We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer with a strong focus in Kubernetes to join our geographically diverse team. All resources may choose to work 100% remotely, at one of our offices in Richmond, VA or San Francisco, CA, or in whatever combination works best.

OUR TECH

Our core stack includes - Kotlin / Java/ PostgreSQL/ Kubernetes / GCP /JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js / React / React Native

The Impact You'll Make in this Role:

Mission Lane is looking for a highly talented and well rounded Principal Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team. Someone who is familiar with not only writing quality code, but also how to deploy and manage applications and systems in production. If you are excited about designing & building scalable, highly available systems, with a small sharp agile team, then this is the right role for you. You would be an influential engineer that will steer the team in the right direction, drive execution, and mentor fellow engineers in software design, system architecture, and operations.

As the Principal Backend Engineer, you will:

  • Data modeling and optimization
  • Work in true DevOps fashion leading the entire tech stack
  • Data modeling and optimization
  • Leverage the latest technology such as kubernetes, ArgoCD, Gloo, and modern day paradigms such as GitOps
  • Solve complex engineering and architectural problems in scaling Mission Lane's products
  • Mentor other engineers on the team and raise the bar in engineering excellence across the organization
  • Work cross-functionally with our Product, Credit, Growth and Data Science teams to understand customer needs and how to design and build the most appropriate features or systems.
To set you up for success in this role from day one, we are looking for candidates who have:
  • Extensive end to end experience in building systems using a major language such as Java, Kotlin, Go in production environments.
  • Extensive experience in designing microservice architecture using kubernetes and docker in production
  • Familiar with architectural strategies such as event driven systems and domain driven designs
  • Have experience in building RESTful APIs, leveraging frameworks like Open API and Swagger
  • Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP.
  • A strong desire to mentor and improve the developers around you.
  • Experience with designing, deploying and improving distributed systems and their associated systems, like orchestration, testing, monitoring, alerting, etc.
  • Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as Heroku, AWS, and GCP.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment; continuous deployment, test-driven development, agile methodologies.


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