Backend Engineer - Remote

Who we are

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1987 and have grown to about 6,500 people.

Purva Software is looking for a Backend Engineer - Remote to join a small, steady team. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll do

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

You'll need

• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Also helpful

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Terraform or Pulumi

Benefits

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

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Start: Immediately.

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