Senior Backend Engineer

About Mesarun Labs

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2013, we now have 180 employees.

About the role

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Houston, but nobody is required to come in. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

In your first few months you will

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Why work with us

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• Employee discount.

Start: Within 30 days.

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