Backend Developer

EKM Cloud has an opening for a Backend Developer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

What you'll be doing

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Why work with us

Salary range: $139,000-$165,000 a year

• Referral program
• Flexible schedule
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Vision insurance

A bit about us

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Start: Immediately.

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