About the job

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Los Angeles, California and two nearshore delivery centers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Job summary:

Meadowhurst Labs has an opening for a Backend Developer. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day:

Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

What you need:

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

Salary: $167,000 - $205,000 per year

What we offer:

Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
401(k) with company match
Three weeks of PTO to start
12 weeks of paid parental leave

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

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Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Immediately.

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