Back-End Software Engineer

Job summary

The previous person in this role moved to another team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Our headquarters is in Toronto, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

What you'll do

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

About you

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Pluses

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Perks and benefits

Pay range: $69.00 - $79.00 an hour. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Long-term engagement.
• Paid time off.

Who we are

Tundraspring employs 8,000 people across engineering hubs in Toronto and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

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

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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