Backend Engineer

About us

Barleybench Labs is a 20-person team running a niche online store for vintage audio parts. Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free.

About the role

Barleybench Labs has an opening for a Backend Engineer. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across India. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

In your first few months you will

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

What we're looking for

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

What we offer

Salary range: ₹15-18 LPA

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Learning budget
• Internet reimbursement

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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