Senior Backend Engineer

About Los Angeles Online:

Los Angeles Online runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers. Most of our traffic is mobile, so the iOS and Android apps get as much attention as the website. We started in 2013 and have grown to about 70 people. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

About the role:

Los Angeles Online is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Day to day:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

What you bring:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Benefits:

Rate: $183,000 - $235,000 per year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid sick leave.
• Gym membership reimbursement.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Start: Immediately.

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