Software Engineer (Remote)

About Kolkata Secure:

Our lab is a back room full of test hardware, old routers and a rack of virtual machines. We are 48 people, all hands-on, and the founders still run engagements themselves.

The role:

Kolkata Secure is hiring a Software Engineer (Remote) to work remotely from India. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

What you'll work on:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup

What we offer:

Rate: ₹15,50,000 to ₹18,00,000 per year

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave

Start: Immediately.

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