Remote Backend Developer jobs – Monroe, Louisiana – Full‑Time Senior API Engineer (Node.js, Python, Go) – $120k‑$150k – Cloud‑Native, Database‑Focused, Remote‑First Role

TITLE:Remote Backend Developer jobs – Monroe, Louisiana – Full‑TimeSenior API Engineer (Node.js, Python, Go) – $120k‑$150k – Cloud‑Native, Database‑Focused, Remote‑First Role Who we are We’re a midsize SaaS team that started in a cramped coworking space on Main Street in Monroe, Louisiana. Over the past three years we’ve built a platform used by more than 120 k small‑business owners to manage inventory, payments, and customer outreach. The product lives entirely in the cloud, and our backend services now handle an average of 45 million API calls per day, with a 99.9 % availability SLA that we’ve kept for the last 18 months.Our engineering group grew from three developers to a cross‑functional squad of 32 people, half of whom work fully remote. The core of the system—our data pipelines, authentication services, and billing engine—are all written in a mix of Node.js, Python, and Go. We’re looking for a senior backend developer to help us keep the ship steady while we add new features that will let us expand into the health‑tech market. Why this role exists now Last quarter we signed a partnership with a national health‑care network that will bring an additional 30 k daily active users onto our platform within six months.That growth will push our current request‑per‑second rate from 500 rps to roughly 800 rps and increase our data‑storage need by 40 %. To meet those targets we need someone who can tighten our existing services, design new micro‑services, and mentor the next wave of engineers we’ll bring on board. In short, we need a backend developer who can take ownership of high‑traffic APIs, improve database performance, and help us keep the reliability numbers we’ve bragged about for so long. What you’ll do (day‑to‑day) 1.Own critical services – You’ll be the go‑to person for at least two of our core services: the billing engine (written in Go) and the analytics API (Node.js). You’ll troubleshoot incidents, conduct root‑cause analyses, and write post‑mortems that actually get read. 2. Design and ship new micro‑services – Working with product, you’ll translate feature requests into clean, well‑documented services. Our upcoming health‑record integration will need a secure, FHIR‑compatible endpoint; you’ll help design that from scratch.3. Database stewardship –Our primary data stores are PostgreSQL (12 TB total) and MySQL (5 TB). You’ll write complex queries, tune indexes, and introduce partitioning strategies that reduce latency by up to 30 %. 4. Infrastructure as code – Using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, you’ll keep our environments reproducible. You’ll also maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, ensuring that every PR is automatically linted, unit‑tested, and can be deployed to a staging cluster with a single click. 5.Mentor junior engineers – We have three junior backend engineers (less than two years experience). You’ll pair‑program with them, run code‑review sessions, and help them set personal growth goals. 6. Monitor and improve reliability –Our observability stack is built on Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. You’ll write alerting rules that cut false‑positives by 20 % and create dashboards that give product managers real‑time insight into usage patterns. Metrics that matter - Keep API error rate under 0.1 % per month.- Reduce average query response time on the billing DB from 120 ms to 80 ms within six months. - Increase automated test coverage of your services from 68 % to 85 %. - Mentor at least 2 junior engineers to reach senior‑level competency within a year. Who you’ll work with - Product Lead – Maya, based in Monroe, Louisiana. She translates market research into user stories; you’ll meet her weekly on video to prioritize the backlog. - DevOps Engineer – Luis, who lives in Austin, TX. He runs our Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, and you’ll collaborate on scaling policies and secret management.- Data Engineer – Priya, in remote Bangalore. She owns the data‑lake pipelines; you’ll sync on schema changes and event‑driven architecture using Kafka and RabbitMQ. - UX Designer – Alex, a remote contractor who focuses on admin‑panel workflows. While you won’t be designing UI, you’ll need to understand how backend changes affect front‑end latency. Tools of the trade (you’ll see most of these daily) - Languages: Node.js (TypeScript), Python 3.10, Go 1.20 - Databases: PostgreSQL 13+, MySQL 8.0, Redis 6.x (for caching) - Message brokers: RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka (for event streaming) - Containerisation: Docker, Docker‑Compose, Helm charts - Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), Istio service mesh (for traffic routing) - Cloud: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) - IaC: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation - CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI (for legacy pipelines) - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry - Testing: Jest (unit), PyTest, Go’s testing package, Postman/Newman for API contracts, Pact for contract testing What we value - Ownership – We don’t write “I’ll get back to you later”.If a service breaks, you fix it, document the fix, and think about how to prevent recurrence. - Clarity – Code comments, PR descriptions, and runbooks should be readable by someone who hasn’t seen the system in a year. - Empathy –Our customers are small‑business owners dealing with cash flow. Knowing the impact of a buggy API on their daily operations keeps us honest. - Continuous learning – We allocate 8 hours per quarter for each engineer to attend a conference, take a course, or explore a new language feature.Human moment > “I still remember the night I rolled out the first version of our payment webhook. My phone buzzed at 2 am with a ticket from a user in Monroe, Louisiana whose checkout failed. I jumped on a video call with the support lead, fixed the race condition, and by 3 am the system was back to green. It’s moments like that that remind me why I love working on the backend.” – * CurrentSenior Backend Engineer, Jenna* Benefits (beyond salary) - Competitive base: $120 k‑$150 k depending on experience, plus quarterly performance bonuses (up to 10 % of salary).- 100 % remote work, with a $1,500 annual home‑office stipend (you can claim it from anywhere, including Monroe, Louisiana). - Health, dental, vision plans covering you and up to two dependents. - 4‑week paid parental leave, plus an extra week for adoptive parents. - 15 days of paid time off plus company‑wide holidays (including a “Founders Day” on the anniversary of our first office opening in Monroe, Louisiana). - Monthly “learning hour” budget of $200 per engineer for books, courses, or conference tickets.- Quarterly team‑building retreats (optional) hosted in a cabin outside Monroe, Louisiana – hiking, bonfires, and a chance to meet the whole crew in person. What a typical week looks like - Monday: Sprint planning (45 min) with Maya, product, and the full backend squad. - Tuesday: Pair‑programming session (2 hrs) with a junior engineer on the new health‑record micro‑service. - Wednesday: Incident review meeting (30 min) reviewing any alerts from Prometheus, followed by updating runbooks. - Thursday: Architecture deep‑dive (1 hr) with Luis and Priya on scaling Kafka topics for the upcoming feature.- Friday: “Demo Friday” – you showcase the feature you shipped that week, answer questions, and close the week with a casual virtual coffee chat. Your background - 5+ years of professional backend development, with at least 2 years leading a service in production. - Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs that serve millions of requests daily. - Strong grasp of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and ability to write performant SQL. Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) is a plus but not required.- Hands‑on with Docker and Kubernetes; you have shipped code to production clusters and understand service discovery, health checks, and rolling updates. - Familiarity with AWS services (RDS, S3, Lambda, EC2) and IaC tools like Terraform. - Comfortable with Git workflows; you write clear commit messages and rebasing is second nature. - Passion for testing: you have set up unit, integration, and contract tests and treat them as a safety net. - Excellent communication: you can explain a complex race condition to a non‑technical stakeholder in plain language.Nice‑to‑have - Experience with Go (especially for high‑throughput services). - Exposure to event‑driven architecture using Kafka or RabbitMQ. - Knowledge of FHIR standards or health‑tech regulations (HIPAA) – especially relevant given our new partnership. - Contributions to open‑source projects or community talks. 1. Send a concise cover letter (max 300 words) explaining why the backend problems we face excite you, and include one concrete example of a performance improvement you delivered in a past role.2. Attach a resume highlighting relevant tech stacks, metrics you owned, and any mentorship experience. 3. Include a link to a public GitHub profile or a repo that showcases your code style. We’ll review applications on a rolling basis and aim to get back to you within 5 business days. If you’re based in Monroe, Louisiana or anywhere else, we’ll schedule a video chat at a time that works for you. Final note We’re not looking for a “jack‑of‑all‑trades” who can do everything perfectly. We want someone who knows their strengths, is humble about what they don’t, and is eager to grow with a team that values transparency as much as speed.If you love diving into the details of an API, optimizing a query that’s been throttling for months, and mentoring the next generation of engineers, we think you’ll feel right at home. Welcome to the future of our backend – let’s build it together. Apply tot his job