About the job

Who we are:

Small accounting firms in Uppsala County use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. Our product started as a side project in 2003 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Uppsala County. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

About the role:

DHH Digital is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We are headquartered in Uppsala and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll work on:

Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

What we're looking for:

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Bonus points:

Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Why work with us:

Rate: $119,000 to $140,000 per year

Annual learning budget.
Home office setup budget.
20 days paid time off.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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