Graduate Backend Developer, Payments

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and two nearshore delivery centres. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

We're looking for a Graduate Backend Developer, Payments to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Main duties:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Desirable:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

What you get:

Pay: ₹7.5-10 LPA

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Learning budget
• Meal coupons
• Gratuity
• Group term life insurance

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Within 30 days.

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