Backend Developer

About Northwoods Software:

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About the role:

Northwoods Software has an opening for a Backend Developer. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We hire in Nigeria through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific.

What you'll do:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• 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
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Nice to have:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Benefits:

• Annual salary review
• Flexible hours
• Performance bonus
• Co-working space stipend
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Northwoods Software LLC.