Backend Engineer

Role Overview

Design, build, and scale core backend platform services and APIs for high-traffic, user-facing applications. You’ll work on resilient microservices, database performance, and high availability in distributed systems, collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, scalable APIs and microservices (Python, Go, or Node.js)
• Optimize data storage and retrieval using relational databases and NoSQL stores
  • PostgreSQL and (Redis, DynamoDB)
• Implement asynchronous task queues and event-driven architectures
  • Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Write unit, integration, and performance tests; participate in rigorous code reviews
• Define SLOs and implement observability
  • Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Requirements

• 3–8 years of professional backend software engineering experience in production environments
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Node.js)
• Deep understanding of database design, query optimization, and data modeling in SQL and NoSQL
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in AWS/GCP/Azure
• Solid software design patterns, system architecture, and API standards (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC)

Nice to Have

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Distributed system tracing
• Experience working in a fully remote, asynchronous team environment