Lead Backend Engineer

Our product started as a side project in 2014 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in New South Wales. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role

Hunter Technologies has an opening for a Lead Backend Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote within Australia. The team meets in Sydney once a quarter, travel covered. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

What you'll do

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Required qualifications

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Why work with us

Salary: $196,000 - $235,000 per annum

• Superannuation on top of salary.
• 17.5% leave loading.
• Annual bonus.
• Flexible hours.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Start: Flexible.

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