Back-End Software Engineer

About us

Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it. Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack.

We are adding a Back-End Software Engineer to our operations team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within the US. The team meets in Albany once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Job duties

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

About you

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Compensation and benefits

Salary: $141,000 - $164,000 annually

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Home office stipend.
• Flexible schedule.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Immediately.

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