Principal Backend Engineer, Remote

Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Looking for a Principal Backend Engineer, Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within the US. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Key responsibilities:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

Who you are:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills

Bonus points:

• Terraform or Pulumi
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Pay and benefits:

Rate: $106.50 to $119.50 per hour

• $1,000 home office setup budget
• Flexible schedule

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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