About the job

Job summary:

Magpieset is hiring a Backend Developer 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 Notifications team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Our team is spread across 20 countries. Headquarters is in Madison. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Duties:

Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

You'll need:

Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
Clear written communication, including design docs.

Benefits:

Compensation: ₹32-42 LPA

Home office setup budget.
Paid parental leave.
Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
Paid sick days.
Co-working space stipend.

Who we are:

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. We started in 1998 and have grown to about 180 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

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