Backend Engineer

ABOUT US:

We know our clients well, often three generations of the same family.

We are adding a Backend Engineer to our operations team. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• 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.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

NICE TO HAVE:

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

PAY AND BENEFITS:

Rate: $142,000 - $168,000 per year

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Flexible schedule.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid time off.
• Employee assistance program.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Profit sharing.

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

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Maple Grove Investment Partners Inc..