Backend Engineer (Java)

Headquartered in Jaipur since 1987, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Jaipur, Rajasthan and two nearshore delivery centres.

Position summary

We're looking for a Backend Engineer (Java) to join our team. This is a remote role. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred qualifications

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

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Group term life insurance.
• Learning budget.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Flexible.

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