Junior Backend Developer

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

Position summary:

We need a Junior Backend Developer. This is a full-time position based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Hybrid. You will need to be in Mumbai at least two days per week.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

What you need:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• 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.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Nice to have:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

₹11,50,000 to ₹15,00,000 per year

Perks and benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Cab facility.
• Learning budget.
• Flexible hours.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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