Senior Software Engineer, Platform/Backend

About the role

SentiLink is a company that builds innovative identity and risk solutions to empower institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We are rapidly growing and have a diverse portfolio of clients, including financial services, which rely on our real-time APIs for identity verification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and provide guidance for the 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 the engineering team.

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.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States.

Skills

• Proficient in our technology stack: Golang, Python, PostgreSQL (RDS), OpenSearch, Docker, AWS technologies (Lambda, Cognito and other standard technologies).

Benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents.
• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non-US-based roles).
• Flexible paid time off.
• Regular company-wide in-person events.
• Home office stipend, and more!

Pay

$170,000/year - $230,000/year + equity + benefits

Schedule

This is a remote, US-based role.