Junior Backend Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1987 and have grown to about 6,500 people.

About the role

Purva Software is hiring a Junior Backend Engineer to work remotely from Canada. The Core API team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Our team is spread across 12 countries. Headquarters is in Mumbai. Employment is through our payroll partner in Canada. Salary is paid monthly in local currency. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Main duties

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Pay and benefits

Rate: $96,000 - $123,000/year

• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Annual team retreat
• 24 days paid time off

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

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