Part-Time Backend Engineer: Docker & Microservices Lead

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

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.