Lead Backend Engineer

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. Founded in 2009, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Role overview:

We are adding a Lead Backend Engineer to our Core API team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The company is based in Louisville, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. We engage team members in Sri Lanka as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

Desirable:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

What we offer:

• Long-term engagement
• Monthly internet allowance
• Paid time off

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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