Backend Engineer

The company

Our product started as a side project in 2021 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Texas. Ryecast is a 13-person software shop in San Antonio. The founders still answer support tickets. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote within the US. The team meets in San Antonio once a quarter, travel covered. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

In this role you will

Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling. Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

Minimum qualifications

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Pay and benefits

Salary range: $148,000 - $177,000 per year

Cell phone reimbursement. Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one. Stock options. Gym membership reimbursement. 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%. Annual bonus. Equity.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

Start: Within 30 days.

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