About the job

More than 300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Role overview:

Looking for a Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Our headquarters is in Sheffield, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Main duties:

Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

Minimum qualifications:

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred:

Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
Prior work breaking up a monolith
Kubernetes, including Helm charts
Terraform or Pulumi

Compensation: $2,900 - $3,500 monthly

Pay and benefits:

Paid in USD
Flexible hours
Company laptop

We review applications as they come in.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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