Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida, +1 more location.

📋 Description

• Take charge of designing and implementing key integrations and subsystems from the evaluation of partners to the rollout of production and ongoing operations.

• Develop and sustain third-party data-provider integrations for KYB, KYC/IDV, AML, fraud detection, banking, and identity systems.

• Abstract integrations behind well-defined, versioned internal contracts.

• Design, enhance, and manage Worth’s public REST APIs and SDKs.

• Deconstruct vague partner specifications, customer integration needs, and vendor edge cases into technical blueprints.

• Write production-level code across both backend and frontend systems utilizing Node.js, TypeScript, Nest.js, and React.js.

• Design and refine PostgreSQL schemas for vendor responses, normalization layers, and crosswalking metadata.

• Create event-driven workflows with Kafka and Redis for enrichment, retries, dead-lettering, and backpressure management.

• Optimize slow queries and address performance bottlenecks in high-throughput integration pipelines.

• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot containerized integration services within Kubernetes.

• Establish alerting mechanisms and runbooks for vendor performance degradations.

• Refactor outdated integration code into modular, testable, and swappable adapters.

• Manage production incidents and fortify systems to minimize recurrence.

• Lead code reviews and mentor peers on integration patterns, resilience, testing strategies, and API design.

• Communicate technical trade-offs among engineering, product, partnerships, and customer-facing teams.

• Provide reliable integrations with comprehensive rollout, monitoring, and rollback strategies.

• Enhance API consistency, code quality, maintainability, and team delivery velocity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Proven ownership of significant features or subsystems in production, preferably with substantial integration or platform-API functionality.

• Extensive expertise in the Node.js and TypeScript ecosystem.

• Strong system design capabilities, particularly concerning resilient integrations: retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, rate limiting, webhook management, and graceful degradation.

• Experience in designing or managing a public API or SDK, including versioning, authentication, contracts, and developer experience.

• Practical experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.

• Experience in building or maintaining event-driven systems utilizing Kafka.

• Proficient in operating containerized applications within Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated ability to refactor complex or legacy integration code into modular, swappable, and thoroughly tested adapters.

• Proven experience in mentoring junior engineers and improving team quality standards.

• Ability to function effectively in high-ambiguity environments, including incomplete, contradictory, or evolving partner specifications.

• Bonus: Direct experience in integrating with KYB, KYC/IDV, AML, fraud, banking, or identity data providers.

• Bonus: Experience in building and delivering a public SDK.

• Bonus: Familiarity with AWS services such as MSK, RDS, EKS, S3, and Lambda.

• Bonus: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform.

• Bonus: Strong foundation in distributed caching strategies using Redis.

• Bonus: Experience with Redshift schema design and ETL pipelines for vendor data.

• Bonus: Production experience with Python in backend systems.

• Bonus: Background in fintech, payments, lending, or regulated data environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

• Life Insurance

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• 9 paid Holidays

• Family Leave

• Remote working options

• Hybrid work available (for Orlando Associates)

• Complimentary Food & Snacks (Orlando)

• Wellness Resources