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.

Role overview

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Velvetridge is hiring for the Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. The company is based in Houston, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Job 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
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

What you need

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred qualifications

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Compensation: $3,000 - $4,000 per month

Benefits

• Paid in USD
• Paid time off

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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