Truehold
Backend Engineer
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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Engineer with at least 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining customer-facing APIs and integrating with payment providers. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend technologies, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure APIs for customer-facing applications.
- Integrate and manage payment provider solutions to support business transactions.
- Develop and optimize backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Work with Python for scripting, automation, and backend services.
- Design and maintain relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS, utilizing ECS, CloudFormation (CFT), Cognito, and Lambda.
- Implement and maintain event-driven architecture using Kafka.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering.
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot for backend development.
- Experience working with Python for backend tasks and automation.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and database optimization techniques.
- Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, CloudFormation (CFT), Cognito, and Lambda.
- Expertise in working with Kafka for event-driven architecture.
- Experience with designing and maintaining secure, scalable, and high-performance APIs.
- Exposure to Salesforce (events, flows, REST API integrations).
- Experience with PubSub gRPC for microservices communication.
- Knowledge of Stripe and Plaid for payment processing and financial data integration.
Truehold New York, New York, USA Office
Truehold’s office is located in Midtown Manhattan near the lush and vibrant Bryant Park. It’s the ideal location with many different train stations and bus stops, not to mention the countless lunch options at your fingertips.
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