Senior Backend Engineer

About us

Small accounting firms in Sindh use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. Northcote Cloud is a 33-person software shop in Karachi. The founders still answer support tickets. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The role

Northcote Cloud is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan. Few meetings, lots of written updates. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

What you'll do

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

About you

• 5-7 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Nice to have

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Pay and benefits

Salary: PKR 270,000 - PKR 300,000 per month

• Provident fund.
• Fuel allowance.
• Paid leave.
• Medical insurance.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Northcote Cloud (Pvt.) Ltd..