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SequenceSequenceNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer - NYC

Builds revenue-critical backend systems processing high-velocity customer usage events for billing, designs scalable event streaming pipelines and data architectures using Kotlin on Google Cloud. Requires strong experience in event-driven systems, scalable backends, and infrastructure ownership.

210k – 230k/yr
HybridBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own revenue-critical event infrastructure, including event streaming pipelines for high throughput and low latency.
  • Design scalable data systems with sophisticated ingestion pipelines and query optimization.
  • Shape backend architecture using Kotlin and Spring Boot, tackling complex technical challenges.
  • Build systems for next phase of growth, focusing on data storage, horizontal scalability, and performance.

Requirements

  • Shipped production backend systems with focus on reliability.
  • Experience building scalable backends handling significant load, understanding throughput, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
  • Strong experience in event-driven architectures, pub/sub systems, event streaming platforms.
  • Deep knowledge of data systems, analytical databases, OLAP, columnar storage, indexing, query optimization.
  • Owned infrastructure: provisioned cloud resources, infrastructure-as-code, cost modeling and optimization.

Tech Stack

Backend: Kotlin (Http4k, Spring Boot, Exposed, Result4k) Storage: Postgres, BigQuery Async messaging: Google Cloud Pub/Sub Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Terraform Frontend: TypeScript, React Monitoring: Google Cloud Monitoring, Sentry

Compensation

  • Salary: $210,000 - $230,000
  • Equity: Meaningful share options
  • 20 days vacation plus national holidays
  • Competitive healthcare and 401K
  • Visa sponsorship available

Skills

KotlinSpring BootPostgresBigQueryGoogle Cloud Pub/SubGCPTerraformHttp4KExposedEvent StreamingPub/SubInfrastructure As Code

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