Senior Backend Engineer

Modes is a digital transformation and organizational design collective working with various clients throughout North America. Our focus is on financial services. We help our clients plan, design, and launch digital human-centered experiences that cater to their users' needs and deliver elegant solutions to their toughest challenges. Our team works with best-of-breed technologies and unique projects with great clients. We constantly seek top talent to join our growing team and support our clients with innovative solutions.
We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer with a proven track record in consulting or professional services firms and hands‑on experience delivering robust, scalable solutions for financial services organizations. This is an opportunity for a forward-thinking individual looking to be a part of a team shaping the future of financial services. If you are interested in the opportunity and Modes sounds like a fit, then go ahead and hit that APPLY BUTTON.
In this role, you will work with customers and our technology partners on implementation projects across North America. How would you guide them to success?
You have experience working with customers within the financial services industry;
You have experience designing, building, and deploying mission-critical technical services at a large scale with a consulting or professional services organization;
You have experience supporting production systems and dealing with production issues;
You have experience designing and implementing systems and processes for software development teams, including source control, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and/or infrastructure as code;
You have experience identifying and resolving issues in workflows and processes in software development teams;
You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and you work well with your team, not just alone;
You have solidskills in a significant fraction of these tools, languages, and technologies:
Package and dependency management, such as:
Maven / Gradle / Ant or similar Java dependency management system
NPM or similar Node package manager
Apt / Yum / APK / homebrew or similar OS package managers
CocoaPods / Carthage / Swift or similar package manager for iOS
Container registries such as DockerHub
Generic artifact repositories such as JFrog, Nexus, Artifactory
CI/CD pipeline systems, such as:
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Azure Pipelines
ArgoCD
CircleCI
GitLabCI
Scripting / programming / automation / software development - proficiency in any of these:
POSIX Shell scripting (BaSH, etc)
C / Python / Ruby / Rust / Golang
Java or JavaScript a bonus
Docker or a comparable container engine / runtime
Kubernetes or a comparable container orchestration solution:
Kubectl or comparable CLI
Manifest files, Helm, or comparable packaging/deployment solution
OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or comparable hosting solution
Bonus points for experience with the finer points of overlays or mesh networks in Kubernetes, such as Istio
UNIX / GNU / Linux operating system fundamentals
Especially environment variables/shell processes
For deploying and supporting Java server applications:
JVM tuning
Tomcat, JBoss, or another application server
Spring Boot or similar framework environment
For deploying and supporting JavaScript web applications:
headers, cookies, and caching
Nginx, Apache, or another webserver
Angular or similar framework environment
Network protocols and systems, especially:
DNS

mTLS
TCP
UDP
SSH
Public Cloud Hosting / Platforms - some significant experience, including automation using API or CLI, with at least one of:
AWS
Azure
GCP
IBM Cloud
VMWare Cloud or any comparable on-premises cloud
IBM Relational Databases - any of the following:
MySQL
MS SQL Server
Oracle DB
Bonus: Infrastructure and configuration management as code, such as:
Terraform
Ansible
Chef
Puppet
You hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training/experience
Top Perks and Benefits
Market Competitive Salary
Enhanced Personal and Family Benefits Plan (Health, Dental, Life, Disability and Travel)
Generous Vacation and Flex Day
Home office setup allowance
Training allowance and Ongoing Learning opportunities
Community Partnership Opportunities
Remote Work
Modes is an equal-opportunity employer anddoesnot discriminate against protected characteristics. We embrace the diversity of our global team members and the strengths and experiences they bring to Modes, our clients,partners, and vendors.
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