Senior Software Engineer, Platform/Backend

SentiLink provides identity verification and risk solutions through real-time APIs. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance its scalable, maintainable, and secure API platform, lead technical direction, and collaborate with product, engineering, and security teams.

Responsibilities:

• You are the owner of one large section of our codebase
• Lead the technical direction provide guidance and set the technical direction for our team, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices
• Design and build a suite of API-based decisioning products
• Code, test, debug, document, and maintain products and platform using established coding standards and methodologies
• Partner with product management to drive agile delivery of both existing and new products based on project requirements
• Ensure new software meets quality standards by writing unit, dependency, integration and end-to-end automated tests
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve product issues as they arise
• Ensure platform and services meet SLA requirements; on call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software development experience building enterprise or consumer facing products
• Experience with building API based products using Python, Golang, or similar technologies
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, interpersonal skills, and a sense of humor (enjoy the journey)
• Familiarity with: RDBMS (e.g. postgres) and ability to write efficient queries with optimal structures; Docker and AWS technologies; fintech or financial services; scrum / agile development environment
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States