Principal Backend Engineer

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us.

Looking for a Principal Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Canada. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

JOB DUTIES

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

PLUSES

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

WHY WORK WITH US

$76.50 to $94.00/hr

• Flexible hours
• Home office allowance

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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