Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Microservices (Equity)

Errgo; Town of Boston (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Errgo is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build distributed systems and high-scale APIs. You will own features end-to-end from design to production, collaborating with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, performant services.

You will work with PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, implement authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, and deploy on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. A background building production systems at scale and strong opinions on API design are

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of backend engineering experience building production systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or Node.js.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and caching (Redis).
• Experience with AWS/GCP and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build and maintain microservices architecture.
• Work with databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB) to optimize queries and data integrity.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
• Integrate with third-party services and APIs.
• Deploy and monitor services on AWS/GCP using Kubernetes.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Microservices

Relational DBs

Caching

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

Education

3-6 years of backend experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

DynamoDB

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Errgo is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build distributed systems and high-scale APIs. You will own features end-to-end from design to production, collaborating with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust, performant services.

You will work with PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, implement authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, and deploy on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. A background building production systems at scale and strong opinions on API design are