Backend Engineer

Overview:

Looking for a Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within Bangladesh. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Main duties:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• 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

What you'll need:

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Why work with us:

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Fuel allowance

About the company:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dhaka, Dhaka Division and two nearshore delivery centres. 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 2010 and have grown to about 520 people.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Within 30 days.

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