Senior Back-End Developer

About us:

Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it. Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

What this job is:

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Day to day:

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Bonus points:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: $179,000-$205,000 per year

• Short- and long-term disability.
• Stock options.
• Paid time off.
• Flexible schedule.

Start: Immediately.

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