Backend Developer

About Gupta Digital

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Founded in 2010, we now have 23 employees.

About the role

Gupta Digital has an opening for a Backend Developer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote position. Most of the team is in Mumbai, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Terraform or Pulumi
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Perks and benefits

• Gratuity
• Learning budget
• Provident fund
• Flexible hours
• Health insurance for you and your family
• Internet reimbursement

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Within 30 days.

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