Backend Developer - Go

About us

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Honolulu. Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments.

The role

This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Honolulu Software is hiring for the Backend Developer - Go position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This is a fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in the US.

What you'll do

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

You might be a good fit if you

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Compensation and benefits

Salary: $146,000-$188,000 a year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Home office stipend.
• Paid sick leave.
• Professional development budget.
• Vision insurance.

No recruitment agencies, please.

Start: Immediately.

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