Backend Engineer

More than 300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue.

Job summary:

Canalloft Media is hiring a Backend Engineer to work remotely from Sri Lanka. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You can work from home anywhere in Sri Lanka. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

What you'll be doing:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

What you need:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Pay and benefits:

• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Learning budget
• Internet allowance
• Paid leave
• EPF and ETF contributions

Start: Immediately.

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