Backend Developer

Position summary

Phillips Online is hiring a Backend Developer to work remotely from Australia. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote within Australia. The team meets in Sydney once a quarter, travel covered. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Responsibilities

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Skills and experience

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

Perks and benefits

Salary: $138,000-$188,000 per year

• Superannuation on top of salary
• Paid parental leave
• Employee share plan
• 17.5% leave loading
• Above-award pay rates
• Flexible hours
• Annual bonus

A bit about us

Phillips Online runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers. Founded in 2018, we now have 90 employees.

Shortlisting will begin immediately.

You must have full working rights in Australia.

Start: Immediately.

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