Back-End Software Engineer

Hickorygate Technologies is a 43-person software shop in Arlington. The founders still answer support tickets.

The role

Hickorygate Technologies is hiring for the Back-End Software Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

Skills and experience

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Compensation and benefits

Salary range: $150,000 - $177,000 annually

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid time off.
• Referral program.
• Home office stipend.
• Profit sharing.
• Dental insurance.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Within 30 days.

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