Senior Backend Engineer - APIs

Hazelland employs 11,100 people across engineering hubs in Washington and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Washington, District of Columbia and two nearshore delivery centres. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

THE ROLE:

Hazelland is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer - APIs position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Our team is spread across 8 countries. Headquarters is in Washington. We hire in Sri Lanka through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

MAIN DUTIES:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

ABOUT YOU:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

WHY WORK WITH US:

Compensation: LKR 850,000 - LKR 1,000,000 per month

• Co-working space stipend
• Annual learning budget
• Paid sick days
• Annual salary review
• 20 days paid time off
• Home office setup budget
• Performance bonus

Candidates must be eligible to work in Sri Lanka.

Start: Immediately.

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