Senior Backend Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Since 1981, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 1981 and have grown to about 7,800 people. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

BENEFITS

$191,000-$245,000 a year

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Annual bonus
• Gym membership reimbursement
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%

Thicketflow is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

This position requires a background check.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Within 30 days.

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