Backend Engineer

About the role

The Backend Engineer designs and operates the services, APIs, and data systems behind user-facing products used at scale. The role focuses on building reliable distributed systems in Go or Java, with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and AWS supporting high-throughput workflows. The engineer partners with product, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure teams to turn product requirements into resilient backend capabilities. This role matters because service performance, data integrity, and operational reliability directly shape the customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production services and REST or gRPC APIs using Go, Java, or a comparable strongly typed language
• Build event-driven workflows with Kafka or an equivalent messaging platform, including retry handling, idempotency, and failure recovery
• Model, query, and optimize data in PostgreSQL and Redis, improving indexing, transaction design, and system performance
• Deploy and operate services on AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code workflows such as Terraform
• Establish observability with metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerting through tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
• Write unit, integration, and contract tests; participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, and continuous improvements to engineering standards

Requirements

• 3–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating backend services in production
• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend programming language
• Hands-on experience designing RESTful or gRPC APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and service-to-service integrations
• Production experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including schema design, query optimization, and transactional consistency
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and operational practices for highly available services
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• Bonus: Experience with Kafka, GraphQL, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, high-volume systems, or mobile and consumer product backends