Backend Engineer: Flexible Hours, MySQL & Data Pipelines

LaunchPad Corp; Youngstown (OH); On-site; USD 57,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship and benefits

Flexible freelance hours

Job summary

LaunchPad Corp in Youngstown, OH is seeking a Backend Developer to own a slice of the technology mission from day one. You will set MySQL standards, refactor legacy code, and collaborate with stakeholders to balance creativity and technical debt.

You will scale data pipelines, monitor Linux telemetry, and implement secure authentication with REST APIs, while earning $57,000 - $82,000 annually and benefiting from mentorship and flexible freelance hours.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort presenting to an OH-wide audience without a script.
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes.
• Familiarity with LaunchPad Corp-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them.

Responsibilities

• Set the MySQL coding standards the rest of LaunchPad Corp engineering follows.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Creativity tradeoffs in language LaunchPad Corp execs grasp.
• Backfill Accountability test coverage on the riskiest corners of LaunchPad Corp's codebase.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with REST API.
• Pull Linux telemetry into dashboards LaunchPad Corp leaders actually open.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using REST API.

Skills

Communication skills

Public speaking

Ownership mindset

Problem solving

Written communication

Tools

MySQL

Job description

LaunchPad Corp in Youngstown, OH is seeking a Backend Developer to own a slice of the technology mission from day one. You will set MySQL standards, refactor legacy code, and collaborate with stakeholders to balance creativity and technical debt.

You will scale data pipelines, monitor Linux telemetry, and implement secure authentication with REST APIs, while earning $57,000 - $82,000 annually and benefiting from mentorship and flexible freelance hours.