• Location: Charlotte NC
• Type: Contract
• Job #24912

Company Overview:
A leading financial services company, specializing in providing installment loans to millions of customers across the United States, is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance its CARDS technology platform.

Job Responsibilities:

• Write production-grade, scalable backend code using Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and modern frameworks.
• Design and implement services with Apollo GraphQL subgraph/resolvers in TypeScript/Node.
• Develop APIs, services, and platform infrastructure supporting credit card acquisition workflows.
• Ship event-driven features with idempotent processing, retries, circuit breakers, and instant rollback.
• Engineer for operations with TDD, performance/load testing, OpenTelemetry traces/metrics/logs, and production dashboards.
• Work in a code-repo with strict CI/CD, PR reviews, static analysis, and automated security scanning.
• Architect platform-level services and improve systems for resilience, observability, and extensibility.
• Make high-leverage engineering decisions balancing speed, quality, and maintainability.
• Raise the bar on engineering quality through hands-on contributions, design reviews, and technical mentorship.
• Partner with product, design, operations, and other engineering teams to build solutions delivering business value and customer impact.
• Contribute to cross-functional platform efforts like onboarding, credit bureau reporting, servicing & collections APIs.
• Drive alignment on technical strategy and execution with strong written and verbal communication.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years building distributed backend services; 3+ years with TypeScript/Node.js in production.
• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
• Deep experience with GraphQL (Apollo/Federation), AWS (EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, S3, KMS, IAM), and event streams (Kafka/MSK or SQS).
• Proven track record shipping fast with TDD, CI/CD, feature flags, and safe migration patterns.
• Solid security and compliance knowledge: OAuth2/OIDC, least-privilege IAM, encryption, audit/retention.
• Production observability with OTel + Grafana/Datadog/New Relic (or similar).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable and robust applications.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams, promoting technical excellence and collaboration.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Compensation:
Pay Rate: $90 – $100/hr, DOE