Backend Developer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Laredo, Texas and two nearshore delivery centers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Overview

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. Laredo Systems is hiring for the Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Duties

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• 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.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ 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.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Pay range: $69.00 - $77.50 an hour. Final offer will depend on experience.

What we offer

• Home office stipend.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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