Back-End Software Engineer

The company:

Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within the US. The team meets in Harrisburg once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Duties:

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

You'll need:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Compensation and benefits:

• Paid holidays
• Employee discount
• Annual bonus
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Flexible schedule

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Flexible.

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