Back-End Software Engineer

About Oxbowridge HQ:

Local news, classifieds and event listings for New York make up the core of the site.

About the role:

We're looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in.

Day to day:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

About you:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Benefits:

Pay: $173,000 to $205,000/year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Home office stipend.
• Professional development budget.
• Profit sharing.
• Paid time off.

Start: Immediately.

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