Backend Developer, Remote

About us

Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 2012 and have grown to about 240 people. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

Canopylane Online has an opening for a Backend Developer, Remote. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote, open to candidates across the UK. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

What you get

• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Death in service benefit
• Annual bonus
• Workplace pension

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Start: Immediately.

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