Senior Backend Engineer

About the company:

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Role overview:

Thistleland has an opening for a Senior Backend Engineer. The Core API team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote position. Most of the team is in Pokhara, but nobody is required to come in. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

In this role you will:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.

You'll need:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

What we offer:

Compensation: NPR 130,000-NPR 150,000 pcm

• Medical insurance.
• Paid leave.
• Life insurance.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Start: Flexible.

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