About the role
We’re seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to lead the design and development of our API ecosystem—the backbone enabling seamless integrations between our platform and our customers’ systems. In this role, you’ll architect secure, scalable, and high-performance backend services, establish integration standards, and ensure our APIs are a first-class product for both internal and external developers.
This is a hands-on role with significant influence over technical direction, architecture, and best practices, working across teams to power mission-critical workflows in the renewable fuels and ESG data space.
What You'll Do
- Architect and implement a robust API ecosystem, including authentication/authorization, versioning, rate limiting, and documentation standards.
- Design scalable, maintainable backend systems that support high-volume integrations and data flows between internal and external systems.
- Collaborate with product and customer engineering teams to define API requirements that meet both technical and business needs.
- Establish integration best practices, patterns, and governance to ensure long-term maintainability.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for API performance and reliability.
- Work with security teams to ensure compliance with industry regulations and data privacy requirements.
- Drive adoption of event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns to improve resilience and scalability.
- Mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and contribute to the growth of the engineering team.
What You Bring
- Proven experience owning backend/API architecture from concept to production at scale.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design.
- Deep knowledge of authentication, authorization, and secure API practices (OAuth2, JWT, etc.).
- Experience integrating with external systems and third-party APIs in complex environments.
- Strong communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional and customer-facing teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in backend software development, including 3+ years designing APIs and integrations at scale.
- 3+ years with Golang in production systems.
- Experience with C# and .NET Web API development.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other JVM languages.
- Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with message queues/event streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.).
Who We Are
- We are People First
- We are Mission-Focused
- We are Agile
- We are Innovators
What Gevo Offers You
- Free health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance for employee and family
- 21 days of vacation and sick leave plus 11 paid holidays
- 401k contribution plan with match in Gevo stock
- Annual incentive plan, based on Company performance
- Paid community volunteer service time
- Dog friendly office
- Be part of a smart, high performing, passionate team
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Gevo, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.