Backend Engineer

Company overview:

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Chicago. The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Overview:

Ashgrove Software is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. 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.

Your responsibilities:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

You'll need:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred qualifications:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi

Perks and benefits:

$16.00 to $19.00 per hour

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop
• Paid in USD

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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