Pivony — Backend Engineer (Contractor, APIs & Data) at Pivony
What is Pivony?
Pivony is a customer intelligence platform that helps teams turn large-scale customer feedback (reviews, surveys, social, forums) into clear insights and actions. We combine analytics dashboards with AI to help organizations understand what customers love, what’s broken, and what to do next.
Why join us?
We’re a small, compact team that ships fast and values ownership. Contractors work close to the product and decision-makers—less bureaucracy, more impact. If the collaboration goes well, there’s a path to long-term work and internal progression.
What you’ll do
Build and maintain backend services and APIs powering dashboard features.
Design reliable data flows (DB changes, migrations, background jobs where needed).
Deliver clean, testable, observable backend outcomes (logs/metrics where appropriate).
How we work
We pay based on accepted deliverables/outcomes, not hours.
We expect strong ownership and production readiness.
Requirements
1+ year of professional backend engineering experience.
Solid API design skills, database fundamentals (PostgreSQL and NoSQL), and debugging ability.
Comfortable with containers (Docker) and running services locally like production.
Able to join video calls reliably (good bandwidth, clear audio/video).
Can write maintainable code, add tests where meaningful, and document rollout/validation steps.
Nice to have
Experience with performance optimization and data-intensive endpoints.
Familiarity with cloud deployments and monitoring basics.