aescape - Senior Backend Engineer (Booking Integrations, Contract)

Remote - ET (Eastern)$312k - $312k+ Equity1w ago

Remote Senior NA Payments Cloud Computing Backend Engineer Senior Backend Developer Go Documentation AWS CRM Management

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering, with recent production Golang experience • Experience building and shipping third-party API integrations in production, ideally booking, scheduling, payments or CRM systems • Experience taking a service from skeleton to production and handing it off with clear documentation • Comfort working with vendor APIs that are inconsistent or thinly documented • Experience with AWS and infrastructure setup for backend services • A track record of working independently, as a contractor or in a role with high ownership • Based in the United States and able to work as a 1099 independent contractor • Compensation: $150 per hour as a 1099 independent contractor, for an engagement of 4 to 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Review Aescape’s service and infrastructure templates and set up a skeleton service that follows our template Go service and best practices • Set up the infrastructure for running the third-party integration services so ongoing maintenance stays light • Implement each booking platform integration within this infrastructure, communicating with Aescape’s general third-party booking integration service (3 total third-party platforms in this contract) • Work actively with the Aescape backend and infrastructure teams, giving feedback that improves the Aescape API and infrastructure template • Set up an infrastructure maintenance plan and hand off the work at the end of the engagement • Potential for future work: fixing integrations when third parties introduce breaking API changes, adding more booking providers, priority consideration when expanding the full-time roles on the backend team