Senior Backend Engineer

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Founded in 2010, we now have 23 employees.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This role is fully remote within India. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Perks and benefits:

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

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Gupta Digital Pvt Ltd.