Senior Backend Engineer

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Responsibilities

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Requirements

• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

What we offer

Salary range: $1,800 to $2,250 per month

• Paid in USD
• Flexible hours

About us

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Buffalo, New York and two nearshore delivery centres.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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