Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Onehouse, a mission-driven company building a cloud-native data lakehouse platform, as a Backend Engineer. You will collaborate on implementing new APIs and services, take ownership of product features, and ensure high scalability and reliability. The role requires 6+ years of backend engineering experience with microservices in a distributed environment, expertise in Kubernetes, gRPC, and Java, and experience deploying on global cloud platforms. Onehouse offers competitive benefits including equity compensation, health and well-being reimbursements, retirement contributions, remote work flexibility, generous time off, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a backend engineer with experience developing and operating microservices in a distributed environment
• Experience with Kubernetes, gRPC and Java
• Experience deploying applications on one or more global cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Operational excellence in monitoring/deploying/testing microservice architectures
• Great problem-solving skills, a keen eye for details
• Quick decision making, self-driven and able to balance to feature development and tech debt
• Clear communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to implement new APIs, database/caching abstractions and services, to support user-facing products, external partner integrations or infrastructure tooling/monitoring systems
• Exhibit full ownership of product features, including design and implementation, from concept to completion
• Be passionate about designing for future scale and high availability, while possessing a deep understanding of common failure patterns and their remediations
• Uphold a high engineering bar around the code, monitoring, operations, automated testing, release management of the platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go
• Experience with Firebase or equivalent DB
• Experience working on a SaaS product

Benefits

• Equity Compensation; our success is your success with eligible participation in our company equity plan
• Health & Well-being; we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being by reimbursing up to 20,000 INR for your monthly insurance premium
• Financial Future; we'll invest in your financial well-being by making this role eligible for the provident fund of which Onehouse will contribute up to 1800 INR/month
• Location; we are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business
• Generous Time Off; unlimited PTO (mandatory 1 week/year minimum), uncapped sick days and 17 paid company holidays
• Food & Meal Allowance; weekly lunch stipend, in-office snacks/drinks
• Equipment; we'll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $500 (USD) stipend for your initial office/desk setup
• Child Bonding!; 26 weeks off for birthing and 12 weeks for surrogate and adoptive parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition