Principal Backend Engineer

About Chula Vista Web

Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free. Hobbyists in the US make up most of our customers, and many have been buying since the beginning.

The role

Chula Vista Web has an opening for a Principal Backend Engineer. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chula Vista, but nobody is required to come in. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

About you

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Preferred qualifications

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Benefits

Rate: $205,000 - $235,000 annually

• 401(k) with 4% match.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Cell phone reimbursement.

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chula Vista Web LLC.