Backend Engineer - Remote

About the company:

Godavari Commerce operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Mumbai and several other countries. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

The position:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. Godavari Commerce is hiring for the Backend Engineer - Remote position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps.

Duties:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• 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.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Skills and experience:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: ₹15,50,000 - ₹21,00,000 per year

• Flexible hours.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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