Backend Engineer

About Northwest Web:

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse. Built and run from New York City, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Founded in 1993, we now have 100 employees.

About the role:

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

About you:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Also helpful:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Benefits:

Salary: $1,500-$1,800 monthly

• Long-term engagement.
• Paid in USD.
• Annual rate review.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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