Our client is hiring an experienced engineer to help scale a major, high-traffic product. Role focuses on backend or full-stack development, system reliability, and architectural improvements in a remote-first team.
Core Responsibilities
- Build features for web/mobile
- Design scalable backend services
- Partner with product + design on technical solutions
- Mentor engineers and improve team practices
- Strengthen testing, reliability, and standards
- Join on-call and incident response
- Explore new tools/approaches for performance
- Help teammates remove blockers
What You Need
- 5+ years building distributed, high-scale backend systems
- Strong with Node, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, SQL
- React + TypeScript experience (for full-stack work)
- Background in APIs, events, and webhook-driven systems
- Strong debugging skills across multiple services
- Experience with distributed/service-oriented architectures
- Bonus: payments, registration, communication systems
Other Info
- Fully remote U.S. (some state limits)
- Compensation starts ~$150K+ (base + bonus)
- Collaborative, remote-first engineering culture
Skills Required
- 5+ years building distributed, high-scale backend systems
- Strong with Node
- Elixir
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL
- React and TypeScript experience (for full-stack work)
- Background in APIs, events, and webhook-driven systems
- Strong debugging skills across multiple services
- Experience with distributed/service-oriented architectures
- Payments, registration, or communication systems experience
What We Do
Fluid Consulting Services is a Boulder-based talent and technology consulting firm that helps businesses improve recruiting, HR, employer branding, operations, and the broader employee lifecycle. It provides talent strategy and acquisition services, including recruiting process design, direct placement, contract-to-hire, and RPO, while also supporting software development, team extension, and creative-first project delivery tailored to client needs and long-term organizational goals.
