Senior Backend Engineer, Java

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in London, England and two nearshore delivery centres.

The role:

Brambleloft is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Java to work remotely from Pakistan. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. The company is based in London, the UK. The team is distributed across several countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Responsibilities:

Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ. Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling. Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

Required qualifications:

5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines. Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js. 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.

$1,750-$2,250 per month

What you get:

Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise. Monthly internet allowance.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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