Lead Backend Engineer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1987 and have grown to about 6,500 people.

About the role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Lead Backend Engineer. The Notifications team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Our headquarters is in Mumbai, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in Italy through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Preferred

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Terraform or Pulumi

Benefits

• Flexible hours
• Annual learning budget
• Home office setup budget
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• 20 days paid time off
• Performance bonus

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Italy.

Start: Within 30 days.

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