Backend Developer

Industrial Partners; Sitka (AK); On-site; USD 93,000 - 127,000; Part time

Job summary

Industrial Partners in Sitka is seeking a Backend Developer to own Docker initiatives and lead a Selenium migration across the current stack. This part-time role handles mid-level feature delivery while coordinating with a strong engineering team during Sitka's traffic peaks.

You will wrangle microservices configurations across environments so Sitka staging mirrors production, defend architectural decisions in reviews, and mentor others with a bias for quality and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Real proficiency with Selenium and willingness to learn Java quickly.
• Hands-on Docker experience suitable for a whiteboard interview.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight.
• Comfort owning numbers that go up or down because of you.
• The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time.
• Fluency across People Management and Ruby, with strong opinions on both.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Selenium migration that finally retires Industrial Partners's spirited-and-grounded legacy stack
• Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $93,000 - $127,000 Backend Developer mandate
• Wrangle Microservices config across environments so Sitka staging mirrors production
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Industrial Partners
• Keep the technology Angular service humming through Sitka's holiday traffic surge
• Own the mid-level Microservices workstream that unblocks the rest of Industrial Partners's Sitka, AK roadmap
• Sketch the Microservices architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

Skills

Selenium

Java

Self-motivation

Independent work

Numbers ownership

People management

Ruby

Tools

Docker

Job description

Join our engineering team in Sitka and help us scale systems that handle traffic from across AK and beyond. You'll take full ownership of Docker initiatives, work alongside a strong team, and earn $93,000 - $127,000 in this part-time role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Selenium migration that finally retires Industrial Partners's spirited-and-grounded legacy stack
• Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $93,000 - $127,000 Backend Developer mandate
• Wrangle Microservices config across environments so Sitka staging mirrors production
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Industrial Partners
• Keep the technology Angular service humming through Sitka's holiday traffic surge
• Own the mid-level Microservices workstream that unblocks the rest of Industrial Partners's Sitka, AK roadmap
• Sketch the Microservices architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

What You'll Bring

• Flexibility to adapt your approach as business needs evolve
• Real proficiency with Selenium, plus willingness to learn Java fast
• Hands-on Docker experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time
• Fluency across People Management and Ruby, with strong opinions on both

Plenty of firms claim to do technology; Industrial Partners actually does it, and from Sitka no less, with a team-oriented stubbornness about quality. Our values show up in small daily choices, not just a poster on the wall.

Come for $93,000 - $127,000, stay for the mentorship, the benefits, and the rare flexibility that makes Industrial Partners a fast-growing place to grow.

Our hiring manager is personally reviewing every Backend Developer application that comes in.