Staff Backend Engineer

Green Labs employs 280 people across engineering hubs in Indianapolis and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Role overview:

Green Labs has an opening for a Staff Backend Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

In this role you will:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Minimum qualifications:

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Preferred:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

What we offer:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Professional development budget.

Green Labs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Flexible.

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