Backend Engineer

About Lilacward

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

About the role

Looking for a Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Day to day

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

What we're looking for

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Benefits

Salary: $149,000 to $168,000 per year

• Dental insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Stock options
• Equity

Start: Flexible.

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