Backend Engineer

We know our clients well, often three generations of the same family. Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year.

Inletgate Asset Management is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from the US. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across the US. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Main duties:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Skills and experience:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Bonus points:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Benefits:

$139,000-$155,000/year

• Life insurance.
• Profit sharing.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Vision insurance.
• Cell phone reimbursement.

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 Inletgate Asset Management.