Backend Engineer

From an office in Nairobi, Hemlockward Wealth Management runs payment processing for property managers and HOAs. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

About the role:

Hemlockward Wealth Management is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from Kenya. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in Kenya. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Responsibilities:

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

Skills and experience:

• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Perks and benefits:

• Medical cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Annual leave.
• Data and airtime allowance.
• 13th month salary.

Please submit your CV in English.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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