Backend Developer (Java)

Company overview

Aldervault builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Founded in 2016, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on.

Role overview

Aldervault is hiring a Backend Developer (Java) to work remotely from India. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. The company is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in India, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Key responsibilities

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

Requirements

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Compensation and benefits

Compensation: ₹38,00,000 to ₹44,00,000 per year

• Co-working space stipend
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Home office setup budget
• Wellness allowance
• Stock options

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Aldervault B.V..