Backend Engineer

A bit about us:

Since 2020, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in Canada. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. We started in 2020 and have grown to about 130 people. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Job summary:

Pinfold Cloud is looking for a Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote within Canada. The team meets in Winnipeg once a quarter, travel covered. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Day to day:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

You'll need:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: $115,000 - $155,000 a year

• Flexible hours
• Home office allowance

This position requires a background check.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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