Associate Backend Developer

About us:

The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync.

What this job is:

LLA Labs is hiring for the Associate Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote, open to candidates across the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

What you'll work on:

Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

About you:

0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Clear written communication, including design docs.

Nice to have:

Prior work breaking up a monolith. Terraform or Pulumi.

Perks and benefits:

Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one. 401(k) with 4% match. Three weeks of PTO to start. Equity. Stock options. Short- and long-term disability.

Start: Immediately.

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