Build reliable backend systems that ship daily, stay monitored, and don’t fall apart under real traffic. If you’re strong in APIs, DevOps minded, and you like owning a subsystem end-to-end, Nightwatch is basically calling your name.
About Nightwatch
Nightwatch is a bootstrapped SaaS company building forward-thinking SEO and AI performance tools for internet professionals. They’re fully remote, intentionally low-meeting, and serious about craft: code reviews, tests, CI/CD, and shipping without bureaucracy.
Schedule
- Full-time or Part-time
- Remote: Yes (work from anywhere)
- Hours: Fully flexible, choose your own schedule
- Collaboration: Daily Slack updates (written stand-ups), two weekly conference calls
- Workflow: Kanban
- Expectation: Own your work, be proactive, and take responsibility for the systems you build
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain performant, well-tested, well-monitored APIs and backend services
- Design efficient data flows and robust web application infrastructure
- Implement automated tests across the stack and keep CI/CD pipelines healthy
- Spin up and manage servers for deployments and operational reliability
- Build and maintain concurrent background job systems and message-queue patterns
- Write clear internal and user documentation
- Own a subsystem end-to-end: from design through production stability
- Contribute to a major architecture overhaul: moving from uncached relational DB querying to a scalable streaming architecture using Kafka and ClickHouse
- Work with production tooling and infrastructure (Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, AWS services, Grafana, Kafka, ClickHouse)
What You Need
- Advanced programming experience in at least a couple of: Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash
- Ruby on Rails experience
- Comfort with functional programming concepts
- Strong Linux shell proficiency
- Ability to spin up servers and make them deploy-ready
- Strong belief in automated tests and ability to implement them across the stack
- Experience designing deploy flows and continuous integration
- Strong database knowledge: key-value stores, SQL, relational DBs (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience building robust background job systems with concurrency patterns and message queues
- Fluent English with consistent daily communication
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
Benefits
- Work from anywhere with completely flexible hours
- Generous vacation time (family and travel friendly)
- Team building events around the world
- High trust, low overhead, ship-every-day environment with strong engineering standards
They’re building for the long haul, not the “here for the bag” crowd. If that’s you, step up.
Share your CV, why you want in, and the software you’re most proud of (and why).
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…