Principal Backend Engineer

About us:

Our website and apps help renters search listings, schedule tours and submit applications. Local news, classifieds and event listings for Andhra Pradesh make up the core of the site.

What this job is:

We're looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote position. Most of the team is in Visakhapatnam, but nobody is required to come in. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

What you bring:

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Pluses:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: ₹19,00,000 - ₹25,00,000 per annum

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Internet reimbursement.
• Flexible hours.
• Learning budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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