Backend Developer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

The position

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer. The Data Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Our headquarters is in Houston, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Job duties

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

What you need

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Long-term engagement
• Flexible hours
• Annual rate review

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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