Backend Developer

About the company

Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. Clifflight protects more than 4,000 organisations, from regional hospitals to Fortune 500 manufacturers. Training budget covers one SANS course or equivalent per year.

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This role is fully remote within Spain. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll do

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Minimum qualifications

• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Pay and benefits

€48,000 to €56,000 a year

• Private health insurance.
• Flexible remuneration plan.
• Remote work allowance.
• Meal vouchers.
• Training budget.
• Life insurance.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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