Associate Backend Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Position summary

We are adding an Associate Backend Developer to our operations team. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Slovakia, with a local contract and salary paid in euros. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

In this role you will

Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling. Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

What you need

1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills. Clear written communication, including design docs. Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred qualifications

Terraform or Pulumi. Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems. NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB. Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Pay: €3,400-€4,200/month

Perks and benefits

Monthly internet allowance. Two weeks of paid leave at year end. Flexible hours. Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner. Paid sick days.

Start: Within 30 days.

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