We can use Daemon::Control for this (or whatever you prefer). The Minion args are documented at https://metacpan.org/pod/Minion::Command::minion::worker
On my VM I'm starting the workers via:
PERL_CARTON_PATH=/home/metacpan/carton/metacpan-api carton exec bin/queue.pl minion worker
One important flag would be --jobs. We'd just need to figure out what an appropriate default is for the VM vs one of the production machines.