Junior Backend Developer

Pillai Apps has an opening for a Junior Backend Developer. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within India. The team meets in Vadodara once a quarter, travel covered. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

In this role you will:

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

What we're looking for:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Pluses:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Benefits:

Rate: ₹10,50,000 - ₹12,50,000 per year

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Meal coupons
• Group term life insurance

The company:

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.

Please submit your CV in English.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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