Backend Engineer

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The position

Looking for a Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in France. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Main duties

Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python. Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning. Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers. Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

You'll need

2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Pluses

Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Why work with us

Salary: €53,000-€59,000 per year

Meal vouchers. Health insurance (mutuelle) covered at 60%. Training budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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