Senior Backend Developer

Company overview

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Developer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Our team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Utrecht. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Responsibilities

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

What you'll need

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Clear written communication, including design docs

What you get

• Long-term engagement
• Paid in USD

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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