Associate Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Overview

Lilactower Labs has an opening for an Associate Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails). This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Day to day

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• 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.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

What you need

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

The base pay range for this position is $114,000-$144,000/year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

Perks and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave.
• Professional development budget.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Stock options.
• Flexible spending account.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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