Backend Engineer I

About Dormer Labs

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about.

What this job is

Dormer Labs has an opening for a Backend Engineer I. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, with occasional travel to Bellevue (a few times a year).

Day to day

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

About you

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Preferred

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Perks and benefits

Rate: $127,000 - $142,000 annually

• Annual bonus.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid time off.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Within 30 days.

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