Backend Developer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Headquartered in Dublin since 2013, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

Position summary

Brown Apps is looking for a Backend Developer 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. The Data Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Ireland. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

What you need

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Preferred qualifications

• Terraform or Pulumi
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

What we offer

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Pension contribution
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Successful applicants will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Start: Immediately.

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