Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails

A bit about us

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. Founded in 1937, we now have 680 employees. The office closes early the day before major holidays.

About the role

Gilchrist Investment Partners is hiring a Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails to work remotely from Pakistan. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our headquarters is in New York City, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

In this role you will

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

Skills and experience

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits

Compensation: $1,450 - $1,750/month

• Annual rate review.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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