Backend Engineer

Headquartered in Miami, the company runs operations centers in Florida and two other locations. Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. The office closes early the day before major holidays.

Job summary:

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. Canalreach is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Pay and benefits:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement

Canalreach provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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