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.

Job summary:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote, open to candidates across India. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Job duties:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.

Qualifications:

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

Nice to have:

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

Compensation: ₹23-27 LPA

Compensation and benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Learning budget.

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Start: Immediately.

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