Principal Backend Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Houston and several other countries. More than 6,700 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

The role

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within the US. The team meets in Houston once a quarter, travel covered. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll be doing

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Compensation: $235,000 - $290,000 annually DOE.

Why work with us

• Referral program
• Flexible schedule

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

We are not working with agencies on this role.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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