Software Engineer, Backend

Avantos AI is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our team in building the Avantos web application from the ground up.

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient backend services using Golang and Python

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Implement and optimize database schemas, queries, and data models using PostgreSQL

- Work with event-driven architectures and message queues, particularly Kafka

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our development practices

- Manage and optimize our AWS cloud infrastructure

- Troubleshoot, debug, and fix production issues

- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development and deployment processes

- 3-5 years of experience in backend development

- Strong proficiency in Golang and / or Python

- Experience with AWS services and cloud architecture

- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

- Strong written communication skills

- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka)

- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools (ArgoCD)

- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform)

- Experience in the financial services industry

- Familiarity with microservices architecture

- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments

- Experience with monitoring and logging tools