Backend Developer

About Opalkeep:

Opalkeep employs 25,800 people across engineering hubs in Sofia and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. We hire in the UK through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Key responsibilities:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Perks and benefits:

• Home office setup budget
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Co-working space stipend
• Performance bonus
• Paid sick days

Start: Immediately.

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