Backend Engineer I

Job summary

Stonepeak Web is hiring for the Backend Engineer I position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Key responsibilities

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

Requirements

• 1+ 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
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

What we offer

Compensation: $65.50 to $76.50 an hour

• Flexible schedule
• Referral program

Who we are

Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free. Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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