Senior Backend Engineer

About NMN Systems:

NMN Systems employs 220 people across engineering hubs in Hyderabad and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

NMN Systems is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work remotely from India. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote, open to candidates across India. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Bonus points:

• Terraform or Pulumi

What we offer:

• Flexible hours

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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