Backend Engineer

About Coalforge Labs:

Coalforge Labs is a 4-person software shop in Aalborg. The founders still answer support tickets. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

Coalforge Labs is looking for a Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We hire in Bangladesh 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.

Job duties:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

About you:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Why work with us:

Compensation: BDT 170,000 to BDT 205,000 per month

• Stock options
• Paid parental leave
• Annual salary review
• 20 days paid time off
• Wellness allowance

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Start: Immediately.

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