AI Summary
Join Globelance's engineering team to build resilient backend services at scale, solve real-world reliability challenges, and help shape a platform used by businesses and professionals globally. As a Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain high-availability backend services and microservices that power core platform features and APIs.
Key Highlights
Design and implement high-availability backend services and microservices
Collaborate with frontend, infra, and product teams
Troubleshoot incidents and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote work with flexible hours
Learning stipend, mentorship, and opportunities to influence architecture and product direction
Job Description
About The Opportunity
A remote-first company operating in the global talent marketplace & SaaS professional services sector, building a secure, scalable platform that connects businesses with freelance and contracted talent worldwide. We're growing our India-based engineering capability to accelerate platform reliability, API performance, and developer velocity.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high-availability backend services and microservices that power core platform features and APIs.
- Build and own RESTful APIs and data access layers; ensure backward compatibility and versioning for external consumers.
- Optimize data models and queries for relational and NoSQL stores; implement efficient caching and indexing strategies.
- Implement containerised deployments, CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and observability (metrics, tracing, centralized logging).
- Collaborate with frontend, infra, and product teams to define scalable system designs and translate requirements into production-ready code.
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements.
Must-Have
- Python
- Node.js
- REST
- Microservices
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GraphQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Proven track record building production-grade backend systems with focus on performance, scalability and operational excellence.
- Strong familiarity with Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD tooling.
- Comfortable working asynchronously in a fully remote, India-based role with cross-functional international teams.
- Fully remote work with flexible hours and a strong emphasis on autonomy and ownership.
- Learning stipend, mentorship, and opportunities to influence architecture and product direction.
- Collaborative, outcome-driven culture that values engineering quality, observability, and continuous improvement.
Skills: rest,microservices,python,docker,github,node.js,mysql,git,mongodb,postgresql,django,gitlab,kubernetes
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