Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. Round Rock Web is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Preferred:

• Terraform or Pulumi

What you get:

Rate: £97,000 - £124,000 per year

• Annual learning budget
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Performance bonus

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Start: Flexible.

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