Principal Backend Engineer

About us:

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Founded in 2012, we now have 180 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The role:

Esposito Digital has an opening for a Principal Backend Engineer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Pakistan, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

About you:

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Compensation and benefits:

Salary range: PKR 770,000 - PKR 1,000,000 a month

• Company laptop.
• Stock options.
• Performance bonus.
• Home office setup budget.
• Annual salary review.
• Flexible hours.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

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