Senior Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The role

LT Cloud is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Main duties

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Nice to have

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Starting pay: $194,000 - $230,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

Why work with us

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off

No recruitment agencies, please.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Within 30 days.

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