Backend Developer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The role

Harrowcraft Data has an opening for a Backend Developer. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Our headquarters is in Paris, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

Day to day

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Pay and benefits

• Long-term engagement
• Paid in USD
• Paid time off

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Harrowcraft Data EURL.