What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer position at Linq?
Job Title: Backend Engineer
Location: Birmingham, AL
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time – In Office
Reports To: CTO
Compensation Range: $65,000 – $100,000/year Stock & Benefits. We do offer relocation assistance for qualified candidates.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team at Linq and help scale the backbone of our platform — our APIs and infrastructure. You’ll work on the core backend services that power both internal systems and customer-facing features, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean architecture.
This role is perfect for someone who’s excited to build resilient systems, contribute to our move toward an event-driven architecture, and help shape the future of how data flows across our products. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and the rest of the engineering team to ship real value, fast.
This is an in-office role in Birmingham, AL.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that serve both our internal team and external customers.
- Contribute to the architecture and scalability of platform and help us scale an event-driven system.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Collaborate across the company to define technical solutions that meet product goals.
- Improve platform performance, reliability, and observability as we scale.
- Participate in code reviews and team discussions that drive technical excellence.
- Help build and support tools and workflows that improve developer productivity.
What We’re Looking For
- 2–5 years of experience in backend development, ideally in a product-focused environment.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby (Rails), with working knowledge of other languages (Python, Kotlin, Node.js) as a plus.
- Familiarity with infrastructure components like Redis, Kafka, and Postgres.
- Understanding of REST APIs and how to design interfaces that are clear and scalable.
- Experience working on systems that require reliability, security, and performance.
- Comfort working with async job processing, background queues, or event-driven systems.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Rollbar, Grafana).
- Experience with public APIs and third-party integrations.
- Exposure to containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
- You care deeply about building for both developers and end users.
Why Join Linq?
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule.
- In-person team culture with plenty of opportunities to connect, grow, and build together.
- Birmingham has a thriving tech scene, a low cost of living, and some of the best food in the South.
- Get in early at a fast-growing startup and make your mark on real products used every day.
- Competitive stock options — we believe in shared success.
Salary : $65,000 - $100,000
