Backend Engineer - Remote

About the company

Since 2010, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Bluffcraft HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month.

Bluffcraft HQ is hiring a Backend Engineer - Remote to work remotely from India. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in India. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

What we're looking for

• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Also helpful

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Perks and benefits

Compensation: ₹14,50,000 - ₹18,50,000 per annum

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Internet reimbursement
• Learning budget
• Flexible hours

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

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bluffcraft HQ Pvt Ltd.