Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Pindrop, a leading voice authentication and fraud prevention company, as a remote Software Engineer based in Ukraine. This contract position through Alcor BPO offers the opportunity to design, develop, and maintain high-performance services and APIs using Golang and Python on a modern cloud platform. You will work with AWS and GCP native products, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate within a cross-functional team. The ideal candidate possesses 5-7 years of software development experience, expertise in cloud-based APIs, and proficiency in DevOps practices. Pindrop provides a competitive compensation package, including comprehensive health benefits, unlimited PTO, and a work-from-home stipend.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of software development experience
• Experience with designing and implementing highly scalable cloud based APIs
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as Python and Go
• Expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms and Concurrency
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps practices towards deployment of SaaS services, including hands on experience with Jenkins, Github Actions, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, as well as experience with managing and maintaining applications in a multi-container environment, such as Kubernetes
• Knowledge of different Data Storage technologies such as Redis, MySQL, etc
• Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
• Experience developing and maintaining services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3
• Linux Proficiency
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• You enjoy working within a collaborative environment across multiple departments
• You have a proven track record of providing stable and secure code in production environments
• You are able to contribute to the feature development in the platform/product with minimal supervision
• You can deliver production ready code from start to finish with an eye towards performance, scale and security and with an understanding of how code could impact cloud scalability
• You are resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
• You are optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solution
• You are resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions and teach yourself something new when needed
• You take accountability, do the things you say you’ll do, under-promise and over-deliver
• You are nimble and adaptable when priorities change and continue to see the “forest through the trees”
• You are happy in a role in which a week in the life might include context switching between application diagnostic troubleshooting using industry standard tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, triaging production issues using tools such as Google Logging and Cloud Trace, troubleshooting regression tests in different environments, designing new product solutions, improving current product features, and coding

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance services and APIs
• Develop applications in Golang and Python on top of a modern cloud focused platform
• Develop and maintain services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3 as well as GCP native products
• Deliver production ready code from start to finish
• Review code to maintain quality with an eye towards performance, scale, and security
• Work in a cross-functional environment, composed of software engineers, test engineers, research scientists, and product managers
• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation
• Contribute to improving software engineering best practices
• Part of On-call rotation with night/weekend work required

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 4 company-wide rest days in 2025, where the entire company rests and recharges!
• Education: Group English Lessons monthly compensation
• Health Benefits: comprehensive medical and dental insurance package
• Work-From-Home Stipend
• Flexible remunerated inactivity/time off period: an unlimited time off policy
• Health-related time-off
• Referral Program
• IT Kit