Senior Backend Engineer - APIs

Sawyer Apps builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

Sawyer Apps is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - APIs to join a small, steady team. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within the US. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Day to day:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs

What you get:

The base pay range for this position is $215,000 - $255,000/year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Three weeks of PTO to start

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Start: Flexible.

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