Backend Engineer

About us:

Founded in 2011, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Islamabad Cloud builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Founded in 2011, we now have 50 employees.

What this job is:

Islamabad Cloud has an opening for a Backend Engineer. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within Pakistan. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

What you'll work on:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

About you:

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Bonus points:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

What you get:

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Two bonuses a year.
• Fuel allowance.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Islamabad Cloud (Pvt.) Ltd..