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[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @LemFi
Mar 11, 2025 - LemFi is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Latvia.
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Role Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. If you are passionate about building mission-critical cloud-based services, have a deep understanding of processing high volumes of customer requests, and strive for achieving perfection by simplicity, we want to hear from you!
- Design, test and implement additional product features.
- Prepare and present design documentation for new features being developed.
- Treat pragmatic automated testing as an integral part of all deliverables.
- Ensure code is built with a keen focus on security and privacy best practices.
- Maintain strict data consistency standards while handling financial transactions.
- Write clean, maintainable, and self-documenting code.
- Participate in peer code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.
- Stay updated on backend design patterns to deliver a modern, cost-efficient, cloud-based architecture.
- Ensure gradual rollout of new functionality using best practices like feature toggles, blue-green deployments, and gradual traffic ramp-up.
- Automate product metrics backed by strict SLA/SLO quality gates.
- Participate in on-call incident response team rotation - “you build it you run it.”
- Take full ownership of features and deliverables, from development to production release and beyond.
- Work cross-functionally with other engineering, product, and QA teams to ensure seamless product functionality.
- Mentor and direct junior developers, fostering a culture of learning, improvement, and excellence.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend development (Go Lang or Java).
- Deep knowledge of Go Lang or Java, with hands-on experience building scalable services.
- Ability and willingness to enhance existing Go Lang backend services regardless of specialization.
- Experience with working with observability stack (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Expertise in building RESTful APIs following company standards.
- Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and Modularization concepts.
- Asynchronous processing with approaches like co-routines, messages queuing, and event streaming.
- Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) such as evolving schemas, transaction isolation levels, and writing optimal SQL queries.
- Ability to package atomic changes for review as Pull Requests using Github.
- Understanding caching patterns (Redis).
- Experience with Docker and other container technologies.
- Proven experience creating user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing UIs.
- Knowledge of operational aspects of Amazon Web Services key services (S3, ECS, ECR, RDS etc) or a similar Cloud provider.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset.
- High sense of ownership and accountability for delivering top-quality work.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.
Requirements
- Knowledge of performance profiling tools.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of writing secure code in compliance with international standards (PCI, OWASP).
- Previous experience in financial domain.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
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Latvia
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 11, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Latvia |
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