Backend Developer - Remote

About us:

Growth has come from search and word of mouth, not paid ads. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

About the role:

Allen Interactive is looking for a Backend Developer - Remote to join a small, steady team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within the US. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

What you'll work on:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

What you bring:

• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills

Pay and benefits:

• Home office stipend

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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