Senior Backend Developer (APIs)

The role:

Sahyadri Apps is hiring for the Senior Backend Developer (APIs) position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This role is fully remote within India. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Minimum qualifications:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

What you get:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Flexible hours.
• Group term life insurance.
• Meal coupons.
• Learning budget.

Who we are:

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Jaipur, Rajasthan and two nearshore delivery centres. Founded in 2002, we now have 780 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Please submit your CV in English.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sahyadri Apps LLP.