Backend Developer

Commerce Advantage Group; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 158,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible part-time schedule

Job summary

Commerce Advantage Group in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Backend Developer who treats Flask documentation as a first draft to improve. This part-time role demands strong communication, mentoring, and the ability to translate business requirements into solid engineering tasks.

You will collaborate with QA, build Elasticsearch dashboards, and own a technology service end-to-end from Ruby schema to on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 5 years of communication or leadership experience in a technical context.
• Senior Backend Developer with Flask and Ruby experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Build Elasticsearch dashboards for metrics.
• Own a technology service end-to-end from Ruby schema to on-call rotation.
• Respond to on-call rotations and postmortems.
• Track and report on KPIs for technology services.
• Break large initiatives into Ruby increments.
• Stress-test Tailwind CSS systems and harden where needed.

Skills

Communication

Mentoring

Presentation

Teamwork

Problem solving

UT regulations

Tools

Elasticsearch

Ruby

Flask

Tailwind CSS

Job description

This senior Backend Developer opening is for someone who treats Flask documentation as a first draft they intend to improve. Take stock: $110,000 - $158,000, part-time, 5 years of Communication, and a senior title that grows teeth as you prove yourself.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
• Translate heads-down-and-happy business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Build Elasticsearch dashboards so Commerce Advantage Group's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
• Own a technology service end to end, from Ruby schema to on-call rotation
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Break large technology initiatives into Ruby increments Salt Lake City can actually deliver
• Stress-test Tailwind CSS systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with Commerce Advantage Group-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself
• Comfort presenting to an UT-wide audience without a script
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to senior leadership
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support senior teammates
• Knowledge of UT-specific regulations relevant to technology work

Somewhere between a startup and an institution, Commerce Advantage Group has spent years perfecting Flask for clients all over Salt Lake City, UT. Our UT team treats transparency as a feature, sharing the messy middle, not just the wins.

We anchor everything in $110,000 - $158,000, then add mentorship, benefits, and the freedom to flex your part-time schedule around real life.

We refreshed this Backend Developer listing this week to keep it current for applicants.