Graduate Backend Developer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Jaffna, Northern Province and two nearshore delivery centres. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Role overview

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Jaffna, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Main duties

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Required qualifications

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

LKR 135,000 to LKR 160,000 pcm

Pay and benefits

• Medical insurance for you and your family.
• Paid leave.
• Company laptop.
• Internet allowance.
• Learning budget.
• Flexible hours.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Start: Immediately.

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