Backend Developer

About us

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product.

Looking for a Backend Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We are headquartered in Sioux Falls and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

Who you are

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Desirable

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Perks and benefits

Salary: $4,900-$5,400 monthly

• Annual rate review
• Monthly internet allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in Spain.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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