Back-End Software Engineer

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

The position

EKM Cloud has an opening for a Back-End Software Engineer. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

What you'll be doing

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

You'll need

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Pay and benefits

Salary range: $139,000 - $162,000 annually

• Professional development budget
• Paid time off
• 11 paid holidays
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Start: Within 30 days.

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