Principal Backend Engineer

Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year. This is a newly created position. 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 Fresno, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

You'll need

• 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
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Salary range: $210,000 - $245,000/year

We offer cell phone reimbursement, three weeks of pto to start, annual bonus, medical, dental and vision insurance and health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.

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 Thornworth Capital.