Lead Backend Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Headquartered in Columbus since 1996, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The role

Inletbench is hiring for the Lead Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. The company is based in Columbus, the US. Our team works from several countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

In this role you will

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• 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.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Preferred qualifications

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

₹57,00,000 to ₹66,00,000 pa

What we offer

• Flexible hours.
• Annual rate review.
• Long-term engagement.
• Paid time off.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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