Senior Backend Engineer

BG Technologies employs 460 people across engineering hubs in New Delhi and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The role:

BG Technologies has an opening for a Senior Backend Engineer. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote within India. The team meets in New Delhi once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Salary range: ₹20,00,000 to ₹25,50,000 per year

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible hours.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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