About the job

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 520 people.

About the role

CKG Cloud has an opening for a Backend Engineer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our team is spread across 8 countries. Headquarters is in Frisco. Employment is through our payroll partner in Pakistan. Salary is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Essential duties and responsibilities

Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Qualifications

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
Clear written communication, including design docs
Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred

Kubernetes, including Helm charts
Terraform or Pulumi
Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Salary range: PKR 470,000 - PKR 590,000 per month

Compensation and benefits

Paid sick days
Annual team retreat
Flexible hours
Co-working space stipend

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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