Back-End Software Engineer

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Canyonkit HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month.

THE ROLE

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Back-End Software Engineer. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This role is fully remote within the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

DAY TO DAY

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

WHAT YOU NEED

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

NICE TO HAVE

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Terraform or Pulumi

The base pay range for this position is $93.50 - $103.00 an hour. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

PAY AND BENEFITS

• $1,000 home office setup budget

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canyonkit HQ, LLC.