Lead Backend Engineer

Meadowhaven HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. More than 350 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

The position

You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Meadowhaven HQ is hiring for the Lead Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote position. Most of the team is in Warsaw, but nobody is required to come in. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

What you'll do

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Rate: PLN 27,000-PLN 32,000/month

Benefits

• Private medical care.
• Extra annual leave days.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote work allowance.
• Training budget.
• Cafeteria benefit system.
• Annual bonus.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Within 30 days.

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