Senior Backend Developer

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

About the role:

We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our team. This is a remote role. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. We are headquartered in Colombo and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

What you'll be doing:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

What you need:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

What you get:

• Annual learning budget
• Flexible hours
• 20 days paid time off
• Paid sick days
• Annual team retreat
• Home office setup budget

Start: Immediately.

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