Backend Developer, Python

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

THE POSITION:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Developer, Python. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within Pakistan. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

DAY TO DAY:

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ 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
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

PREFERRED:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Rate: PKR 195,000 to PKR 230,000 per month

WHY WORK WITH US:

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Life insurance
• Two bonuses a year
• Fuel allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Baloch Systems (Pvt.) Ltd..