WASSHA Looking for Backend Engineer at India Full Time

Job Type: Full-time

Remote: Remote

BACKEND ENGINEER (MEDIOR/SENIOR)WASSHA, a Japanese company operating in Africa, is looking to expand its engineering team with talent based in UTC+2 to UTC+5 time zones.JOB INFOLocation: Remote (within India)Position type: Full-TimeJob Category: Backend EngineerExperience Level: Medior/SeniorSalary Range: Up to 2,000,000 INR, gross, a year.Department: Software EngineeringReports to: Director of Software EngineeringTeam Size: ~4 peopleTHE TEAMAt WASSHA, we light up peoples lives. We aim to help the truly disadvantaged and challenged groups of our society by providing them with affordable options for lighting. You will enable children to study after dark, small stores to stay open longer,

and fishermen to improve the size of their catch at night. Our service consists of custom-built third party hardware, in-house systems and third party APIs.THE ROLEAs a Backend Engineer, you will help grow, improve, and maintain our existing services, as well as shape our future by developing new services for WASSHA. This particular role will involve a heavy focus on owning and modernising our existing systems. This will involve working with and modernising legacy Django code and deployments, as well as creating more automation to improve our existing operations.YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE POSITION IF YOUBelieve in shipping high quality code that is readable, testable, maintainable, and continuously integrated via small, safe deployments.Want to take on the challenge of building interconnected,

scaling systems that can function reliably in an environment with intermittent connectivity.Want to own and operate backend systems running on EKS in AWS.Enjoy collaborating and growing together with your engineering peers.Enjoy contributing to positive engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and participating in technical discussions within the teamBelieve in following best practises such as knowledge sharing and data driven decision-making.WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOUA degree in computer science or a relevant field, experience in designing and developing APIs, and some understanding of transaction and data processing systems.General familiarity with SQL and other database technologies.Working understanding of and interest in SRE related topics and their practical application.“You build it, you run it” attitude: experience managing services end-to-end, from developing to deploying to monitoring and incident support.Passion for working in an agile, cross-functional team,

iterating quickly during the product development cycle. Furthermore, the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering peers.Desire to have a positive impact on our users by continuous improvement and optimisation.Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Django and Terraform is a very strong plus.*** THIS IS A FULLY REMOTE POSITION AND DOES NOT INCLUDE RELOCATION

▶️ Backend Engineer
🖊️ WASSHA
📍 India