Back-End Software Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The role:

Lilactower Labs is hiring for the Back-End Software Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered.

Main duties:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Required qualifications:

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Starting pay: $173,000 to $230,000/year, depending on experience and certifications.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible schedule
• Paid parental leave
• $1,000 home office setup budget
• Life insurance

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Within 30 days.

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