Lead Backend Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New Delhi, Delhi and two nearshore delivery centres. We started in 2004 and have grown to about 400 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The role:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within India. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

What you'll be doing:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

Minimum qualifications:

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

What you get:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Gratuity
• Flexible hours

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at New Delhi Software Pvt Ltd.