Senior Backend Developer

About FTH Payments:

Founded in 1984 by an advisor who left a large brokerage to go independent.

About the role:

We are adding a Senior Backend Developer to our operations team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote within Nepal. The team meets in Bharatpur once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Job duties:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

You'll need:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Perks and benefits:

Compensation: NPR 135,000 - NPR 155,000 a month

• Paid leave
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop
• Learning budget
• Medical insurance
• Dashain bonus

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Immediately.

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