Senior Backend Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New Delhi, Delhi and two nearshore delivery centres. We started in 2004 and have grown to about 400 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The role:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Main duties:

Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans. Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups. Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB. Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces. Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling. Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

Minimum qualifications:

5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries. Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Preferred qualifications:

Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems. Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Salary: ₹18,50,000-₹24,50,000 per year

Pay and benefits:

Flexible hours.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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