Backend Developer, Python

About JM Apps:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Founded in 2022, we now have 17 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

What this job is:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer, Python. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Our headquarters is in Houston, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Pakistan, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Day to day:

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

What you get:

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Annual learning budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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