Backend Developer

About the company

Cottonpoint Labs is a 5-person software shop in Stockton. The founders still answer support tickets. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Looking for a Backend Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within the US. The team meets in Stockton once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

Main duties

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

About you

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Nice to have

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Benefits

Compensation: $135,000 - $154,000/year

• Employee assistance program
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Flexible schedule

Start: Immediately.

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