Senior Backend Developer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Sydney since 2006, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We started in 2006 and have grown to about 590 people. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The role:

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon.

Day to day:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• 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

What you need:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Nice to have:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Why work with us:

• Public holidays observed per your country
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Company laptop

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Galestead Data Pty Ltd.