Senior Back-End Developer (Remote)

The company:

Since 1984, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Built and run from Toronto, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers.

Looking for a Senior Back-End Developer (Remote) who wants to stay somewhere for a while. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

Job duties:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

What you get:

€750-€975/day

• Annual rate review.
• Paid time off.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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