Backend Developer

Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack. Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free.

The role:

Mur Media is hiring a Backend Developer to work remotely from Austria. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This role is fully remote within Austria. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

About you:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Preferred qualifications:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Compensation and benefits:

Rate: €5,200-€5,800 per month

• 30 days of annual leave
• Up to 3 days of home office per week
• Home office equipment
• Meal allowance
• Virtual stock options

Start: Immediately.

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