Back-End Software Engineer

Who we are

Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Baker Systems builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

What this job is

Baker Systems is looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join a small, steady team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

What you'll do

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

About you

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Preferred

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Compensation and benefits

Pay: $131,000 - $178,000 a year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with company match
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee discount
• Profit sharing
• $1,000 home office setup budget

Start: Flexible.

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