\nThe Mortgage Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer with a strong focus on microservices architecture to join our team. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Java, and possess in-depth knowledge of Kafka, SQS, Redis, Postgres, Grafana, and Kubernetes. You are an expert in working with and scaling event-driven systems, webhooks, RESTful APIs and solving challenges with concurrency and distributed systems. As a Senior Backend Engineer at Ocrolus, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable and reliable backend systems. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ensure our services meet the highest standards of performance and reliability, specifically tailored to the needs of the mortgage industry.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices architecture using Java.\n\n* Implement event-driven systems utilizing Kafka and AWS SQS for real-time data processing and messaging.\n\n* Optimize and manage in-memory data stores with Redis for high-speed caching and data retrieval.\n\n* Develop and maintain robust database solutions with Postgres, ensuring data integrity and performance with PgAnalyze.\n\n* Deploy, monitor, and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Terraform and ensure its scalability and resilience and our manage cloud infrastructure.\n\n* Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions that meet business needs.\n\n* Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and gRPC services to support seamless integration with frontend applications and third-party services.\n\n* Ensure secure and efficient authentication and authorization processes using OAuth.\n\n* Manage codebases in a monorepo environment using Bazel for build automation.\n\n* Troubleshoot and resolve client support issues in a timely manner, ensuring minimal disruption to service.\n\n* Continuously explore and implement new technologies and frameworks to improve system performance and efficiency.\n\n* Write and maintain technical documentation on Confluence to document technical plans and processes, and facilitate knowledge sharing across the team.\n\n* Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the overall growth and development of the engineering team.\n\n\n\n\nRequired Qualifications:\n\n\n* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n\n* 5+ years of professional experience in backend development with a focus on microservices.\n\n* Proficiency in Java, with a strong preference for expertise in Java and the Spring framework.\n\n* Strong experience with Apache Kafka for building event-driven architectures.\n\n* Hands-on experience with AWS SQS for message queuing and processing.\n\n* Expertise in Redis for caching and in-memory data management.\n\n* Solid understanding of Postgres or other relational databases, including performance tuning, migrations, and optimization.\n\n* Proven experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and management.\n\n* Proficiency in developing and consuming RESTful APIs and gRPC services.\n\n* Proficiency with command line and Git for version control and Github for code reviews.\n\n* Familiarity with OAuth for secure authentication and authorization.\n\n* Strong understanding of software development best practices, including version control, testing, and CI/CD automation.\n\n* Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.\n\n* Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n\n* Experience working in the mortgage and fintech industries, with a deep understanding of domain-specific challenges and B2B SaSS requirements.\n\n* Experience managing codebases in a monorepo environment with Bazel for build automation.\n\n* Understanding of security best practices and implementation in microservices.\n\n* Experience with performance monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Sentry, PgAnalyze, Prometheus, and New Relic.\n\n* Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS.\n\n* Familiarity with Python.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Redis, Java, Cloud, Git, Senior, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $115,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nGurgaon, Haryana, India

\nAbout the Role: \n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer at Papaya, you will be an important part of building a new product line. These products will service some of the largest financial institutions in America, and you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to produce high quality, scalable, and testable backend code.\n\nFlexibility, communication, and a willingness to learn are of the highest importance. Papaya believes that diversity helps build an inclusive culture where all team members can grow, contribute, and feel valued. If you agree, we’d love to hear from you!\n\nRemote engineers within Latin America are welcome to apply. Depending on your skill and experience, you can expect to make somewhere between $6,000 and $7,500 USD per month upon joining the company.\n\nWhat you will do: \n\n\n* Find creative solutions to technical problems\n\n* Write well designed, testable and reliable backend code\n\n* Contribute to code reviews and technical architecture discussions and documentation\n\n* Collaborate with product and other stakeholders\n\n* Build and maintain APIs that integrate with large financial institutions\n\n* Work primarily with NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can bring: \n\n\n* 8+ years of proven Node and/or Java  experience\n\n* Flexibility; you can seamlessly switch gears between cranking out prototypes and carefully architecting systems for correctness, reliability and security\n\n* Curiosity; ask questions so we can all come up with optimal solutions\n\n* Experience with scalable service architecture and design\n\n* Have knowledge of REST, GraphQL, Spring, Gradle/Maven\n\n* Some proficiency in SQL (PostGres) and NoSQL (MongoDB)\n\n* Experience with Git for version control\n\n* DevOps or App Security experience a plus\n\n* Have impeccable verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Papaya:\n\nPapaya is a modern fintech platform that simplifies bill payments for American families. Using computer vision and automation, our app makes paying your bills as simple as taking a picture. \n\nWe started in 2016 with the mission to alleviate the frustration of paying bills. We are building technology to help address American families’ number one source of stress, finances, while also helping billers of all sizes and from all industries get paid faster and more often.\n\nAt Papaya, we love to celebrate our incredible group of hardworking employees - and it shows. We’re proud to say that we were voted one of Built In LA’s Best Small Companies to Work for in 2021, 2022, and 2023! We are proud to have 4.8 stars and over 100k reviews on the App Store, and are backed by investors that include Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. \n\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to NoSQL, Git, Node, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil