Backend Developer

GrowthEdge Corp; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 69,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Wellness perks

Career development

Job summary

GrowthEdge Corp in Erie, PA is seeking a Backend Developer to help ship reliable services and tame latency on our stack. You’ll own critical backend features, participate in planning, and translate rough ideas into resilient prototypes.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years of backend experience, strong Redis judgement, and a bias toward action. You’ll work with Flask, Google Cloud, and GitLab CI on a remote-friendly team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend development experience
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written

Responsibilities

• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Translate a napkin idea from GrowthEdge Corp founders into a Resilience low-drama prototype
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at GrowthEdge Corp can explain
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the GrowthEdge Corp stack
• Resurrect flaky Flask tests until the Erie, PA suite is trustworthy again
• Tune Google Cloud caching so GrowthEdge Corp survives the Erie launch spike on the same hardware
• Ship GitLab CI fixes to GrowthEdge Corp customers in Erie, PA the same day they report them
• Own the quality-focused edge cases in GrowthEdge Corp's Self-Motivation billing nobody else wants to touch

Skills

Redis

Leadership

Time management

Bias toward action

Ambiguity navigation

Backend development

Tools

Flask

Google Cloud

GitLab CI

APIs

Job description

The phrase "it works on my machine" makes you wince, which is exactly why you'd make a great Backend Developer here in Erie. Think of it less as a job and more as a $69,000 - $106,000 bet GrowthEdge Corp is placing on your 4 years and your judgment.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions
• Translate a napkin idea from GrowthEdge Corp founders into a Resilience low-drama prototype
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at GrowthEdge Corp can explain
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the GrowthEdge Corp stack
• Resurrect flaky Flask tests until the Erie, PA suite is trustworthy again
• Tune Google Cloud caching so GrowthEdge Corp survives the Erie launch spike on the same hardware
• Ship GitLab CI fixes to GrowthEdge Corp customers in Erie, PA the same day they report them
• Own the quality-focused edge cases in GrowthEdge Corp's Self-Motivation billing nobody else wants to touch

What You'll Bring

• Proven Redis judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• Strong time-management skills and a bias toward action
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes

The founders of GrowthEdge Corp left bigger companies to build something problem-solving in Erie, and technology has been better for it. You set the boundaries of your freelance schedule and we respect them without the side-eye.

We reward remote-native contributors with $69,000 - $106,000, flexible hours, wellness perks, and meaningful career development support.