Graduate Backend Developer, Remote

Role overview:

HSW Labs is looking for a Graduate Backend Developer, Remote to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. We hire in India through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

You'll need:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Why work with us:

₹20.5-26.5 LPA

• Paid parental leave.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Company laptop.
• Annual learning budget.

Company overview:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi and two nearshore delivery centres. HSW Labs employs 240 people across engineering hubs in Abu Dhabi and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Start: Within 30 days.

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