Backend Developer

About the company

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Awan Digital is hiring a Backend Developer to work remotely from Pakistan. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across Pakistan. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

In this role you will

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Skills and experience

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Pay and benefits

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Fuel allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Awan Digital (Pvt.) Ltd..