Staff Backend Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

About the role:

Lilactower Labs is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This role is fully remote within the US. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Nice to have:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Starting pay: $260,000 - $325,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

What you get:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• 11 paid holidays
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Annual bonus
• Employee discount

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

Agencies: please do not contact us about this role.

Start: Flexible.

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