Lead Backend Engineer

Our product started as a side project in 2019 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Maharashtra. Small accounting firms in Maharashtra use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague.

Role overview

Looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. The operations 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 Mumbai once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Job duties

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

About you

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Compensation and benefits

• Provident fund.
• Health insurance for you and your family.
• ESOPs.
• Flexible hours.

Start: Flexible.

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