Senior Backend Developer

Who we are:

CFP Systems is a 41-person software shop in Lalitpur. The founders still answer support tickets. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about.

The role:

CFP Systems is hiring for the Senior Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within Nepal. The team meets in Lalitpur once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

What you'll do:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• 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
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

About you:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Also helpful:

• Terraform or Pulumi
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Pay and benefits:

Salary: NPR 110,000-NPR 130,000 a month

• Medical insurance
• Company laptop
• Internet allowance
• Social Security Fund contribution

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Flexible.

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