Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js)

Larchwater employs 4,800 people across engineering hubs in Huntsville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

The role

Larchwater is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js) to work remotely from the US. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Required qualifications

• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills

Nice to have

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Terraform or Pulumi
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Compensation: $200,000 to $260,000/year

Pay and benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid parental leave
• Annual bonus
• Gym membership reimbursement

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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