Associate Backend Developer

Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Chesapeake Cloud is hiring an Associate Backend Developer to work remotely from the US. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Requirements:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Nice to have:

• Terraform or Pulumi.

What we offer:

The base pay range for this position is $124,000 to $146,000/year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Vision insurance.
• Annual bonus.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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