Senior Backend Engineer

About us:

Reedgrid is a 12-person software shop in Norfolk. The founders still answer support tickets. Our product started as a side project in 2004 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Virginia. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The role:

Reedgrid is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for our Norfolk location. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Hybrid: two days in the office in Norfolk, the rest from home.

Day to day:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

About you:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Perks and benefits:

• Gym membership reimbursement.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Life insurance.
• Employee discount.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

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