Backend Engineer, Laravel & High-Throughput APIs

Energy Innovation Corp; Spokane Valley (WA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp seeks a backend engineer to build REST APIs that power impact-driven products. You’ll work with Laravel and Ruby in production, collaborating with technology analysts to ensure systems scale in Spokane Valley, WA. This role offers growth into leadership as you sharpen Redis and testing practices.

You will pair with teams across disciplines, refactor legacy code, and deliver remote projects while maintaining high standards and strong discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience building REST APIs that scale to heavy load.
• Production experience with Laravel and Ruby.
• Ability to align stakeholders and drive technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology analysts to align models with real behavior.
• Refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Decompose monolith into Laravel services for Spokane Valley deployment.
• Troubleshoot production incidents in unit-tested apps.
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects.
• Lead postmortems to prevent outages in Spokane Valley.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.

Skills

Vue.js

Ruby

Stakeholder diplomacy

Technology best practices

Curiosity

Discretion

Professionalism

Tools

Laravel

Job description

Energy Innovation Corp seeks a backend engineer to build REST APIs that power impact-driven products. You’ll work with Laravel and Ruby in production, collaborating with technology analysts to ensure systems scale in Spokane Valley, WA. This role offers growth into leadership as you sharpen Redis and testing practices.

You will pair with teams across disciplines, refactor legacy code, and deliver remote projects while maintaining high standards and strong discipline.