Back-End Software Engineer

About Poniente Data:

Since 1995, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in Spain. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

What this job is:

Poniente Data is looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join a small, steady team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote within Spain. The team meets in Málaga once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

What you'll work on:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Requirements:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Desirable:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Terraform or Pulumi

Why work with us:

Rate: €43,000 to €56,000 per year

• Private health insurance
• Flexible start and finish times
• Meal vouchers
• Remote work allowance
• Training budget

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Poniente Data S.L..