Senior Backend Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 520 people.

Position summary:

CKG Cloud is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Our team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Frisco. We engage team members in Pakistan as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Job duties:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB

What you need:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Salary: PKR 570,000 - PKR 700,000 pcm

Compensation and benefits:

• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible hours

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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