Senior Back-End Developer

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 109,600 people.

Canalcross is hiring a Senior Back-End Developer to work remotely from the US. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We are headquartered in Madrid and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

Skills and experience:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Pay and benefits:

The base pay range for this position is $184,000 - $240,000 per year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

• Company laptop
• 20 days paid time off
• Co-working space stipend
• Performance bonus
• Paid parental leave
• Home office setup budget

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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