Backend Engineer

About FR Defence:

Government contractors use our services to prepare for CMMC assessments and NIST 800-171 compliance. Identity and access management projects, mostly Okta and Entra ID rollouts, have been part of the business since 2019.

What this job is:

FR Defence is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You can work from home anywhere in Nepal. We have no office requirement.

In your first few months you will:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Compensation and benefits:

Salary: NPR 105,000 - NPR 130,000 pcm

• Medical insurance.
• Company laptop.
• Internet allowance.
• Social Security Fund contribution.
• Paid leave.
• Flexible hours.

Start: Immediately.

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