Backend Engineer

A bit about us:

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. We started in 1989 and have grown to about 130 people.

You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Harborline Labs is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. The company is based in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. Our team works from several countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Skills and experience:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Pay and benefits:

Compensation: $1,250 - $1,700/month

• Company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance

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

Candidates must be eligible to work in Bangladesh.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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