Senior Backend API Engineer (Rails/Go) — Flexible Hours

Latitude.sh; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Annual Bonus

Flexible work hours

Competitive compensation

Wellhub

Job summary

Latitude.sh in the United States is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the core API that powers customers, SDKs, and internal systems. You will collaborate with the platform architect and lead backend engineer on design and implementation of scalable REST APIs and developer-facing surfaces.

You will own the reliability of the services you build, ensuring robust performance for our users. The role emphasizes building with Ruby on Rails, Python, or Go, API design craftsmanship, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend engineering.
• Strong Ruby on Rails, Python or Go (ideally both).
• Experience designing and building REST APIs at scale.
• Relational databases, background jobs, distributed systems fundamentals.
• You care about API design as a craft — our customers are developers and they notice.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the core API that customers, SDKs, Terraform provider, and internal systems depend on.
• Work with our platform architect and lead backend engineer on design and implementation.
• Contribute to the developer-facing surface: REST APIs, webhooks, SDK compatibility.
• Own reliability of the services you build.

Skills

Backend engineering

Ruby on Rails

Python

Go

REST API design

Relational databases

Background jobs

Distributed systems

API design

Job description

Latitude.sh in the United States is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the core API that powers customers, SDKs, and internal systems. You will collaborate with the platform architect and lead backend engineer on design and implementation of scalable REST APIs and developer-facing surfaces.

You will own the reliability of the services you build, ensuring robust performance for our users. The role emphasizes building with Ruby on Rails, Python, or Go, API design craftsmanship, and