Senior Backend Engineer

More than 460 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centers in four regions.

Position summary

Heatherbridge Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work remotely from the US. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Qualifications

• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Preferred qualifications

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Terraform or Pulumi
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Salary: $93.00 - $109.00 an hour

What you get

• $1,000 home office setup budget
• Home office stipend

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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