Backend Developer (Python)

About Larchwater:

Larchwater employs 4,800 people across engineering hubs in Huntsville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Huntsville, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Your responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• 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.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

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.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Desirable:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: $144,000 - $174,000 per year

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Dental insurance.
• Employee discount.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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