Senior Back-End Developer

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Job summary

Hernandez Marketplace is hiring for the Senior Back-End Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Main duties

Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups. Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers. Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

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. Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Pay: $189,000 - $215,000 per year

Perks and benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance. 401(k) with company match. Three weeks of PTO to start. Flexible spending account. Dental insurance.

Hernandez Marketplace 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.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Flexible.

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