Backend Engineer (APIs)

About Vázquez Consultora:

Our office is in a converted house near downtown Montevideo. Planning is done in RightCapital and portfolios are managed in Orion. Family owned and operated since 2011. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

Position summary:

Vázquez Consultora has an opening for a Backend Engineer (APIs). Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. You can work from home anywhere in Uruguay. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Responsibilities:

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Why work with us:

• Private health insurance
• Gym membership
• Life insurance
• Training budget

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Vázquez Consultora S.A.S..