Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Tala, a company on a mission to empower the financially underserved, as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will design and implement features, review code, collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve the codebase, and contribute to migrating legacy code to a microservices architecture. As a technical leader, you will mentor a team and advance Tala's engineering processes. This role requires extensive backend software engineering experience, expertise in microservices architecture, and strong database skills. Tala offers a remote-first work environment and a diverse, global team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
• 5+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin
• Developed and launched large scale consumer applications with the backend on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) using microservices architecture paradigm
• Expert knowledge in architecture & system design
• Ability to provide technical leadership & mentorship
• Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use
• Expert proficiency in Agile development process
• Excellent ability to prioritize and communicate in a fast-paced environment
• Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)
• Strong non-relational database experience (Cassandra, Redshift, DynamoDB, HDFS)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
• Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
• Collaborate and support with cross functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solving problems using the most appropriate technology
• Contribute to complete migration of legacy codebase to microservices architecture
• Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules
• Advance monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times
• Technically lead and mentor a team of Backend Engineers to build/extend complex modules

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related fields is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to interview candidates and evaluate technical skills