Senior Backend Engineer – Event-Driven & Greenfield Development

Job description

**About Goods & Services** Goods & Services is a product design and engineering company. We solve mission-critical challenges for some of the world’s largest enterprises, with deep expertise in highly regulated industries—including **life sciences** and **financial services**. Our **design-led** approach allows us to apply cutting-edge capabilities in **AI,** **Data** and **Hardware Engineering** to companies of any size. Headquartered in the **United States**, we operate regional development centers in **Mexico** and the **United Kingdom**. This global footprint—anchored by our **nearshore** model—enables us to deliver at scale with the speed, efficiency, and cultural alignment our clients expect. At Goods and Services, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome qualified applicants from all backgrounds. **About the job** Goods & Services is looking for a **Senior Backend Engineer – Event-Driven & Greenfield Development** to help build the platform’s event-driven architecture and develop new, scalable backend capabilities. The role will focus on designing reliable event-based solutions, establishing new services from the ground up, and delivering robust functionality across key business domains. **What you’ll do:** - Design, build, and maintain event-driven infrastructure, including event buses, schema management, messaging integrations, error handling, and reliable event processing. - Develop and enhance backend integrations with internal and third-party services, implementing resilient patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, and backoff strategies. - Design and develop new backend capabilities for credit management, including event models, system integrations, and automated workflows to support key business processes. - Build event-driven reporting solutions that leverage data from multiple business domains to support report generation, approval workflows, and business insights. - Support production readiness and traffic migration activities, including validating new services under real-world traffic and ensuring reliable adoption as capabilities are introduced. **What you’ll need:** - Hands-on experience with AWS EventBridge and event-driven architecture, including event schema design, Schema Registry, dead-letter queues (DLQs), replay, and reliable event processing. - Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services, with knowledge of resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, and backoff strategies. - Solid domain and event modeling experience, ideally in a lending or credit-risk domain, with the ability to design scalable event schemas and data models for business-critical workflows. - Experience building data and reporting integrations, including reporting databases, data pipelines, business intelligence tools such as Tableau, and event-driven reporting workflows. - Experience designing and developing greenfield backend services, with the ability to establish new domains, services, and architectures without relying on existing legacy implementations. - Strong backend engineering experience, including developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and integrations using scalable and maintainable design practices. - Experience with AWS messaging and integration services, such as SQS, and implementing reliable asynchronous communication between distributed services. - Experience with production readiness and system validation, including performance testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting controlled traffic rollout of new services. **Nice to have:** - Experience in lending, financial services, or risk management is a plus.