Senior Backend Developer (Python)

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 71,100 people.

Buckeyefield is hiring for the Senior Backend Developer (Python) position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Our headquarters is in Seoul, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in Pakistan. Salary is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees.

DAY TO DAY:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks

YOU'LL NEED:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

PREFERRED:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

PERKS AND BENEFITS:

Salary range: PKR 650,000 - PKR 780,000 pcm

• Company laptop
• Wellness allowance
• Annual team retreat
• Annual learning budget
• Co-working space stipend

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Immediately.

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