Senior Backend Developer

About us:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

What this job is:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Developer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote within Sri Lanka. The team meets in Negombo once a quarter, travel covered. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

In your first few months you will:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Preferred:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Terraform or Pulumi

Why work with us:

Salary range: LKR 300,000 - LKR 350,000 a month

• Learning budget
• Company laptop
• EPF and ETF contributions
• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Paid leave

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Immediately.

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