Senior Back-End Developer

Who we are

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. We started in 2018 and have grown to about 100 people.

What this job is

Skiffgate Digital is looking for a Senior Back-End Developer to join a small, steady team. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You can work from home anywhere in the Netherlands. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Day to day

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

What you bring

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Nice to have

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Why work with us

• Pension scheme
• 8% holiday allowance
• Bike plan
• Laptop and phone
• Training budget
• Home office allowance
• 25 annual leave days

Start: Immediately.

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