Backend Developer - APIs

About Laurelhall Labs:

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Pune. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role:

Laurelhall Labs is hiring for the Backend Developer - APIs position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This role is fully remote within India. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

In your first few months you will:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

What we're looking for:

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Nice to have:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi

Benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Internet reimbursement
• Gratuity

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Laurelhall Labs Pvt Ltd.