About the job

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Durham, North Carolina and two nearshore delivery centres.

Position summary:

Looking for a Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. The company is based in Durham, the US. The team is distributed across several countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Bangladesh, with a local contract and salary paid in taka. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Main duties:

Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Required qualifications:

Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
Clear written communication, including design docs
Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Nice to have:

NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
Prior work breaking up a monolith

Compensation and benefits:

20 days paid time off
Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
Paid sick days
Performance bonus

Start: Immediately.

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