Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

This is a Fully Remote Job
About Our Client:
The organization operates in the financial technology sector, addressing the challenge of providing clear, predictable payment options without hidden fees or surprises. It focuses on building data infrastructure to support online transactional and analytical systems, enabling secure and scalable storage, analysis, and transformation of data critical to financial services.
About the Opportunity:
The SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BACKEND (ONLINE STORAGE) will architect, build, and scale relational and distributed SQL database systems. This role is key to enhancing the reliability, automation, and performance of mission-critical data platforms that underpin financial transactions and analytical workloads. The position involves influencing team direction, improving infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
Build and operate control planes for large-scale distributed SQL databases, including automation of provisioning, failover, backups, and upgrades.
Design and execute zero-downtime schema and data migrations across multi-tenant database clusters.
Manage networking stacks connecting services to storage in Kubernetes, tuning for latency, resilience, and failover.
Own and deliver quarterly team goals, leading engineers through complex problem-solving.
Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to support product development.
Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology, or business issues.
Support operations and availability through monitoring and on-call efforts.
Foster a culture of quality by setting and advocating code review and design standards.
Mentor and develop team talent through feedback and example.
Requirements:
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Experience designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in production.
Expertise with distributed databases and technologies like MySQL and TiDB preferred.
Strong understanding of distributed database architecture, data modeling, SQL tuning, and performance optimization.
Experience with database benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies such as ProxySQL.
Experience building automation tooling for databases (provisioning, failover, upgrades, migrations) especially on Kubernetes.
Proven ability to perform zero-downtime migrations and major version upgrades.
Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, service discovery, and TLS.
Ability to define and deliver technical plans for significant features with simple, extensible designs.
Proficiency in managing large codebases and applying safe development practices.
Demonstrated ownership of professional growth and proactive feedback seeking.
Strong communication skills for global collaboration.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
Pay Range and Compensation Package:
Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 9
Employees new to the organization typically start at the beginning of the pay range.
Compensation is determined based on location, experience, and job-related skills.
Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Note:
TalentHop is a recruitment partner of this role. Please note that all employment decisions, including candidate assessment, interviews, hiring, compensation, and employment terms, are made exclusively by the hiring employer.

Work arrangement
Yes