Backend Developer

ScaleTech; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 85,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare

Home-office allowance

Distributed team

Job summary

ScaleTech in Providence, RI is hiring a mid-level Backend Developer who treats reliability as a feature, not an afterthought. Bring RabbitMQ, gRPC, and Docker expertise with 4+ years of backend experience for a distributed team.

You’ll sketch architectures, build resilient services, and collaborate with cross-functional partners on part-time projects, while enjoying a competitive $85,000–$122,000 salary, premium healthcare, and a generous home-office allowance.

Qualifications

• Docker experience refined over 4+ years.
• Experience with RabbitMQ and gRPC in backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Sketch the RabbitMQ architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Build the boldly-pragmatic Prioritization feature that wins back the RI accounts ScaleTech lost
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver part-time projects
• Ship the Ansible deeply-bought-in rewrite that pays down years of ScaleTech technical debt
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Stress-test gRPC systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Collaboration and Ansible

Skills

RabbitMQ

gRPC

Docker

Job description

We're growing the technology group at ScaleTech and need a mid-level Backend Developer who treats reliability as a feature, not an afterthought. Bring RabbitMQ and gRPC sharpened over 4 years, and ScaleTech answers with $85,000 - $122,000 plus a clear path up.

Key Responsibilities

• Sketch the RabbitMQ architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Build the boldly-pragmatic Prioritization feature that wins back the RI accounts ScaleTech lost
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver part-time projects
• Ship the Ansible deeply-bought-in rewrite that pays down years of ScaleTech technical debt
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Stress-test gRPC systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Collaboration and Ansible

What You'll Bring

• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• A writer's ear for tone in a high-stakes email
• A solid foundation in Docker, refined over 4+ years
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a part-time project

For technology teams who've been burned before, ScaleTech is the endlessly-iterating Providence, RI partner that finally keeps its promises. We hire for character and deeply technical thinking, then trust the rest to follow.

Your package includes $85,000 - $122,000, premium healthcare, and a generous home-office allowance for our distributed team.