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You'll own features from design to production: writing APIs, modelling data in PostgreSQL, working with search, caching, and streaming systems, and making sure what you ship is reliable, observable, and secure. This role suits someone who enjoys real production systems and cares about how their code behaves after it's deployed.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs in Node.js/Python.\nModel data and write efficient queries in PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, migrations, and query tuning.\nBuild and maintain search and indexing features on OpenSearch.\nUse Redis for caching, rate limiting, and fast-access data.\nBuild Kafka producers and consumers for event-driven and streaming workflows.\nBuild observable services, with clear logging, metrics, and tracing, and help debug production issues.\nWork with DevOps on deployments, CI/CD, and service health.\nWrite clean, tested code and take part in code reviews.\nApply security best practices, including authentication and authorization (RBAC), input validation, and secrets handling.\nWork with product and cross-functional teams to understand the \"why\" behind what you build.\nRequirements:\n2-3 years of professional backend development experience.\nStrong hands-on experience with Node.js/Python, including middleware composition, async/await, error handling, and performance basics.\nSolid PostgreSQL experience: joins, indexes, transactions, query plans (EXPLAIN), and schema design.\nExperience building and consuming REST APIs.\nComfort with Git and good repository hygiene, such as clean commits, meaningful PRs, and branching.\nUnderstanding of testing (unit and integration).\nAbility to debug issues in a running system, not just locally.\nWorking knowledge of:\nOpenSearch / Elasticsearch: indexing, mappings, and writing search and aggregation queries.\nRedis: caching patterns, TTLs and eviction, and common data structures.\nKafka: topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets, and handling retries and failures.\nGood to have:\nWorking knowledge of Node.js/Python.\nFamiliarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar).\nDocker and basic Kubernetes or cloud (AWS/GCP) exposure.\nExperience in fintech, broking, or other high-reliability domains.\nEffective use of AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, etc.) with good judgment about when and how to trust their output.\nWhat we're looking for beyond skills:\nOwnership: you follow your code into production.\nCuriosity about how systems fail and how to make them sturdier.\nClear communication with engineers and non-engineers alike.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2720,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Investing Apps & Robo-Advisors"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T13:23:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["seen:2","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ionic-wealth-backend-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ionic-wealth-backend-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T02:42:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3674,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1326,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}