Associate Backend Developer

About us:

Our product started as a side project in 2019 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in North Carolina. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us.

About the role:

Canyon Labs is hiring an Associate Backend Developer for our Greensboro location. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Hybrid. You will need to be in Greensboro at least two days per week.

Day to day:

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

About you:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Preferred:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Perks and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid sick leave
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canyon Labs.