Lead Backend Engineer

Nowak Data builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Position summary

This is a newly created position. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The Data Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

Job duties

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

About you

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Pay and benefits

Pay: ₹40,00,000-₹48,00,000 per annum

• Wellness allowance.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Flexible hours.
• Annual salary review.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Immediately.

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