Mid level Backend Dev for SaaS the music industry Location Remote: 100% remote. Minimum 4 hours per day, ideally 6-8 hours.
Salary 80,000 - 100,000 per year (s)
Description We’re hiring a freelance mid-level backend developer to join our 100% remote, talented, energetic small team at MelodyIQ. We build music analytics tools trusted by the world’s top record labels. The code you ship will directly shape how global campaigns are run for the world’s biggest artists.
You’ll start with daily maintenance and support tickets, then grow into deeper backend ownership, improving performance, fixing bugs, and building new features that matter.
You’re reliable, detail-focused, and proactive: someone who can keep the lights on while making the system better every week.
Commitment:
Minimum 4 hours per day, ideally 6-8 hours per day.
Contract:
Month-to-month freelance, with the option to move to long-term hire if it’s a great fit.
Timezone:
Prioritising candidates located between Europe and Australia, with at least 4 hours of daily overlap with Central European Time (ideal: Eastern Europe).
What You’ll Do
Handle daily system maintenance and customer support tickets
Debug and fix bugs in production with care and precision
Improve reliability and performance of backend systems
Build internal automations and tools to make life easier for the team
Write and maintain tests that keep our systems rapid and dependable
Take part in database migrations, CI improvements, and dependency upgrades
Monitor dashboards and proactively flag potential issues
Ship pragmatic solutions, not over-engineered ones
Refactor existing JavaScript code into TypeScript and clean up legacy code (if applicable)
Example Tasks You Might Work On
Setting up Grafana dashboards to monitor key metrics
Reducing GCP costs through smarter infrastructure decisions
Migrating GCP Gen1 to Gen2 cloud functions
Improving CI/CD deployment processes
Cleaning up old/unused database tables
Upgrading our PostgreSQL instance
Optimizing PostgreSQL queries
Who We’re Looking For
4+ years of experience as a backend or full stack engineer
Strong written communicator (we’re async and remote-first)
Comfortable working autonomously day to day
Trustworthy, conscientious, and detail-oriented
Pragmatic: proud of your code but focused on simplicity and maintainability
Curious and eager to learn, especially in a fast-moving SaaS startup
Previous experience in fully remote async teams is a plus
Required technical skills
Very experienced with large PostgreSQL databases in a work setting
Node
Typescript / JavaScript
At least basic React
Nice to have technical skills
Google Cloud Platform
Redis
GitHub Actions
Grafana / Prometheus
Job type Remote job
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