# Senior Software Engineer - NYC

**Company:** [Sequence](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sequence)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $230k/yr
**Skills:** Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, BigQuery, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, GCP, Terraform, Http4K, Exposed, Event Streaming, Pub/Sub, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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