About Workmind

Workmind builds AI-powered automation for American home-service franchises. Founded in July 2025 by experienced AI professionals, we’re focused on robust, reliable systems that turn operational friction into revenue. We don’t fine-tune models; our value is systems design, orchestration, and evaluation that hold up under real-world abuse.

Role: Backend Developer (Contractor)

You’ll work directly with the CTO to design, build, and test production services on Google Cloud. This is a hands-on role writing and shipping Go code that integrates external APIs, manages data pipelines, and keeps our systems observable and reliable.

What you’ll do

• Build and evolve backend services on Cloud Run with Go (modern Go versions).
• Integrate Workmind with third-party APIs (auth, rate limits, retries, idempotency).
• Work with Cloud SQL (Postgres) as the primary database; use Firestore for caching.
• Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests; own CI signals and performance benchmarks.
• Ship with reliability: defensive coding, structured logging, metrics, tracing, and SLO awareness.
• Contribute docs (inline comments + Markdown runbooks) and small internal tooling.

Our stack

• Go
• Google Cloud: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL (Postgres), Firestore (cache), Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Managed Prometheus
• Observability: OpenTelemetry (traces/metrics/logs)
• Containers: distroless images, least-privilege runtime

Must-haves

• 2+ years of Go in production backends or distributed systems

• Experience with serverless/containerized deployment (Cloud Run, Lambda, etc.)

• Strong API integration skills (auth flows, pagination, webhooks, rate-limit strategies)

• Practical understanding of testing at multiple layers (unit/integration/E2E)

• Solid grasp of observability (logs, metrics, traces) and production troubleshooting

• One of the following Google Cloud certifications or equivalent experience:

  • Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Professional Cloud Developer
  • Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Nice-to-haves

• Cloud SQL Postgres performance tuning; schema migrations; connection pooling for serverless
• CI/CD with Cloud Build; supply-chain basics (provenance, SBOMs)
• Functional programming concepts for safer composition and testing
• Security basics: secrets, service accounts, IAM least privilege, multi-tenant isolation

Location & hours

Remote. Preference for Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam). Applicants elsewhere are welcome but must work ASEAN hours with at least 4 hours daily overlap.

Compensation & contract

• Contract role; you handle your own taxes/insurance per local law
• Base USD $2,000–$4,000/month (DOE)
• Initial 90-day contract with potential extension
• Fully remote; flexible hours with core overlap

How to apply

Email your CV to careers@workmind.cloud. Include:

• Links to your GitHub or recent projects (services, libraries, or infra you’ve shipped)

• A brief note answering one:

  1. What’s the hardest part of designing idempotent, retry-safe workflows on GCP (and why)?
  2. Describe a time you led a meaningful architectural change and how you de-risked it.
  3. What observability signals do you rely on first during a live incident?

Interview process

1. CV review
2. 90-minute video call with lightweight pair-programming
3. Offer