Backend Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2008, we now have 230 employees.

Role overview:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The company is based in Youngstown, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Job duties:

Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Qualifications:

Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Clear written communication, including design docs. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Perks and benefits:

Rate: $2,600 to $3,400/month

Paid in USD. Monthly internet allowance. Company laptop.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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