Senior Backend Developer

About us:

Founded in 1998, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. We started in 1998 and have grown to about 100 people.

What this job is:

WM Cloud has an opening for a Senior Backend Developer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within Pakistan. The team meets in Karachi once a quarter, travel covered. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll work on:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Desirable:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

What you get:

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Two bonuses a year.
• Fuel allowance.

Start: Immediately.

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