Backend Developer

Small accounting firms in Minnesota use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Duties

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

You'll need

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Also helpful

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

What we offer

• Public holidays observed per your country
• Wellness allowance
• Company laptop
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Co-working space stipend

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

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