Senior Back-End Developer

Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1995.

Job summary:

Cedartrack is looking for a Senior Back-End Developer to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Employment is through our payroll partner in the US. Salary is paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Duties:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Compensation: $188,000-$220,000 per year DOE.

Perks and benefits:

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Annual salary review
• Paid sick days
• Performance bonus

Cedartrack is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

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