Remote Backend Engineer

Description:

• This role is for one of the Weekday's clients.
• The salary range for this position is Rs 3000000 - Rs 5500000 (INR 30-55 LPA).
• The minimum experience required is 5 years.
• The position is remote and based in India.
• We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and help build scalable, low-latency, real-time systems at the heart of a global marketplace.
• This role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices architecture, with a strong focus on system performance, availability, and distributed computing.
• Key responsibilities include designing, building, and scaling microservices with low-latency and high-throughput to power real-time hotel search, pricing, availability, and distribution.
• The engineer will implement complex algorithms and data models for inventory and pricing workflows.
• Collaboration with product managers and architects is essential to own end-to-end development from design to deployment.
• The role involves leveraging LLM tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) and frameworks like LangChain to enhance development velocity using RAG, prompts, and agents.
• Conducting rigorous code reviews and contributing to an automated CI/CD pipeline to support frequent and reliable deployments is also required.
• Monitoring and optimizing systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to ensure sub-50ms response times is part of the job.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Strong expertise in MySQL, MongoDB, or ScyllaDB is required.
• Proven experience building distributed, event-driven systems using SQS, Kinesis, or similar technologies is necessary.
• An understanding of data consistency models, fault tolerance, backpressure, and circuit breakers is essential.
• Experience designing low-latency APIs and working in high-performance environments is required.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch is necessary.
• Candidates should be comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment with strong documentation practices.
• A passion for clean code, automation, and driving engineering excellence is essential.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary range of Rs 3000000 - Rs 5500000 (INR 30-55 LPA).
• The role is fully remote, providing flexibility in work location.
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and tools in a dynamic environment.
• The chance to contribute to a global marketplace and impact real-time systems.
• A collaborative team culture that values strong documentation practices and engineering excellence.