Backend Engineer

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Our product started as a side project in 1993 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in California. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary

Ormond Labs is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from Poland. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our headquarters is in San Jose, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Poland, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Day to day

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Compensation and benefits

Rate: PLN 16,500 - PLN 18,500 monthly

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Home office setup budget.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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