Backend Engineer

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🕒 June 26

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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THEMIS Waste Recovery Technology

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Healthcare • Logistics • Food & Beverage

THEMIS Waste Recovery Technology is a pioneering platform focused on democratizing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes for various industries. Themis provides banks, fintechs, and vendors with advanced tools to streamline compliance collaborations, accelerate partner onboarding, and automate risk assessments. With a commitment to enhancing operational efficiency and a track record of improving productivity in financial institutions, Themis is reshaping the compliance landscape with innovative solutions tailored for the banking and fintech sectors.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems on a modern Rails stack • Work with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, background jobs, APIs, and service integrations • Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and deployment • Build secure, reliable APIs and backend workflows that support complex GRC use cases • Design data models and database structures that prioritize integrity, performance, and long-term maintainability • Collaborate with frontend engineers to design clean, well-documented APIs • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Rails code • Contribute to architecture decisions as the platform scales • Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and data integrity issues • Participate in code reviews and help raise the engineering bar • Improve backend patterns, tooling, and development practices over time • Apply security and data-handling best practices appropriate to a regulated domain • Partner with product to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions • Support audit, compliance, and data-integrity requirements relevant to our customers • Help maintain systems that customers can trust for critical governance, risk, and compliance workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience building production applications with Ruby on Rails or a similar modern backend framework • Experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including data modeling and query performance • Experience with Redis, background jobs, caching, queues, or similar backend infrastructure • Strong experience designing and building APIs • Experience writing tested, maintainable, production-grade code • Strong understanding of security, reliability, performance, and data integrity fundamentals • Ability to own backend systems end to end and manage complexity thoughtfully • Strong communication skills and comfort working closely with product, frontend, and other engineering team members.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Remote work options • Asynchronous work support