Backend Developer

About us

Local news, classifieds and event listings for New York make up the core of the site.

About the role

Oxbowridge HQ is looking for a Backend Developer to join a small, steady team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in.

What you'll do

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• 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.

Who you are

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

What we offer

Starting pay: $129,000 - $167,000 annually, depending on experience and certifications.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Life insurance.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Gym membership reimbursement.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Immediately.

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