Junior Backend Developer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2005, we now have 250 employees.

OVERVIEW

We are adding a Junior Backend Developer to our Payments team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in India. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS. Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python. Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources. Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

QUALIFICATIONS

1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Clear written communication, including design docs. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Pay: ₹12-14 LPA

BENEFITS

Health insurance for you and your family. Provident fund. Paid leave.

Start: Immediately.

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