Principal Backend Engineer

The position

We are adding a Principal Backend Engineer to our operations team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our headquarters is in Carmel, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

In this role you will

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Bonus points

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi

What you get

₹48,00,000 - ₹56,00,000 per annum

• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

The company

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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