Backend Developer

ABOUT SCOTT APPS

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Chicago. The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Ashgrove Software is hiring for the Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

DAY TO DAY

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

WHAT YOU BRING

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

ALSO HELPFUL

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

WHAT WE OFFER

• Company laptop
• Paid in USD

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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