Principal Backend Engineer

Founded in 2020 by an advisor who left a large brokerage to go independent. We are adding a Principal Backend Engineer to our operations team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. We are headquartered in Seattle and have been hiring remotely since 2020. 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 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

The job includes: reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources; model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB; containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS; review code for correctness, performance and failure handling; design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

About you

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Salary range: ₹46-54 LPA

We offer health insurance through our employer-of-record partner, home office setup budget, paid sick days, 20 days paid time off, annual salary review, monthly internet allowance and performance bonus.

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 Fallowland Advisors LLC.