Backend Developer

Egreenservices; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 86,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Promotion ladder

Paid family leave

Mentors invested in your success

Job summary

Discovery is hiring a Backend Developer for our Dayton, OH office. The role emphasizes building scalable Express.js services, tuning databases, and implementing observability to catch issues before customers notice.

The position offers growth through a clear promotion ladder and mentorship from experienced engineers. Expect a compensation range of $86,000 to $123,000 per year, with responsibilities spanning from prototyping to mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• Resilience demonstrated over multi-year tech cycles.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing requirements.
• Comfort guiding technical discussions toward concrete decisions.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity when brief is incomplete.
• Strong time-management and bias toward action.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Replace the Jest hack with an Express.js solution scalable to Dayton.
• Stand up observability to detect failures before customers.
• Hand off gRPC runbooks for on-call teams.
• Automate manual gRPC chores in Dayton, OH.
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for new tech needs.
• Mentor newer senior hires on how Discovery wires Express.js together.

Skills

Resilience

Learner's pace

Decision making

Ambiguity tolerance

Time management

Tools

Express.js

Jest

gRPC

Google Cloud

Job description

Discovery is looking for a $86,000 - $123,000 Backend Developer to join our Dayton, OH office and accelerate our product roadmap. Think $86,000 - $123,000, think contract hours, think 6 years of Google Cloud turning into ownership you can actually feel at Discovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Discovery workloads
• Replace the brittle Jest hack with an Express.js solution that survives Dayton scale
• Stand up observability so Discovery sees failures before customers in OH do
• Hand off gRPC runbooks so the next on-call at Discovery sleeps better
• Automate the manual gRPC chores that quietly drain Dayton, OH engineering hours
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging technology requirements
• Mentor newer senior hires on how Discovery actually wires Express.js together

What You'll Bring

• Resilience measured across 5 years of technology cycles
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action

We're Discovery — a nimble Dayton, OH outfit that treats Professionalism less like a feature and more like a craft. Our Dayton team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.

Joining us means $86,000 - $123,000, a clear promotion ladder, paid family leave, and mentors invested in your success.

We are actively reviewing applications for this Backend Developer role this week.

Come find out why people stay at Discovery once they get here; the Backend Developer door is open.