Junior Backend Developer - Go

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 520 people.

Overview

CKG Cloud is looking for a Junior Backend Developer - Go to join a small, steady team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Key responsibilities

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

Qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Nice to have

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Terraform or Pulumi

PKR 260,000-PKR 350,000 per month

What you get

• Wellness allowance
• 24 days paid time off
• Paid sick days
• Annual team retreat
• Company laptop
• Co-working space stipend

Please submit your CV in English.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Flexible.

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