Senior Back-End Developer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

The position

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. 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 Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Your responsibilities

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Preferred qualifications

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Compensation: $215,000 - $255,000/year DOE.

Compensation and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• Flexible spending account
• Short- and long-term disability
• Medical, dental and vision insurance

Keelward is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Immediately.

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