Senior Backend Developer

More than 11,200 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

Position summary:

Looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Main duties:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Why work with us:

• Annual learning budget.
• Performance bonus.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Wellness allowance.
• Home office setup budget.
• Paid sick days.

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

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Flexible.

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