Senior Backend Developer

About us:

Since 2018, growth has come by referral, mostly from auditors and insurance brokers.

What this job is:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Developer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Uganda, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In your first few months you will:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

What you bring:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Why work with us:

Rate: UGX 8,200,000 to UGX 9,600,000 per month

• Performance bonus.
• Annual team retreat.
• Annual salary review.
• Home office setup budget.
• Annual learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at HJC Threat Labs LLC.