Backend Engineer

A BIT ABOUT US

Revenue comes from a mix of advertising, affiliate commissions and a premium tier. Since 2012, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Phoenix Interactive is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We hire in Bangladesh through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

PLUSES

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Rate: BDT 205,000 - BDT 245,000 pcm

• Equity.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Wellness allowance.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.

We review applications as they come in.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Bangladesh.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Phoenix Interactive, LLC.