Senior Backend Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and two nearshore delivery centres. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

The role:

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. Chennai Labs is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This role is fully remote within India.

Main duties:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Preferred:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Salary: ₹17,50,000-₹22,00,000 per year

Compensation and benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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