Backend Developer

About Alderspan Marketplace

Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it. Growth has come from search and word of mouth, not paid ads.

The role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

In your first few months you will

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Requirements

• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Pluses

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

Perks and benefits

Compensation: PKR 400,000 - PKR 460,000 pcm

• Wellness allowance.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Home office setup budget.
• Annual learning budget.
• Performance bonus.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alderspan Marketplace.