Backend Developer

Who we are

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers.

The role

We are adding a Backend Developer to our Platform team. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote position. Most of the team is in Nicosia, but nobody is required to come in. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In your first few months you will

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Nice to have

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

What you get

• Private health insurance.
• Meal vouchers.
• Flexible remuneration plan.
• Remote work allowance.
• Training budget.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Start: Immediately.

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