Backend Engineer

About the role

The role owns the design, implementation, and scaling of core backend services and APIs that power high-traffic user-facing products. You will collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to build reliable, low-latency distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable REST and GraphQL APIs using Node.js, Python, or Go
• Architect and optimize relational and NoSQL database schemas using PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
• Ensure system reliability, high availability, and low latency across all backend services deployed on AWS or GCP
• Implement comprehensive automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Monitor application performance, debug production incidents, and participate in an on-call rotation
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code and actively participate in technical design and code reviews

Requirements

• 3–6 years of professional backend software engineering experience building distributed systems at scale
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Node.js, Go) and solid understanding of asynchronous programming
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), caching layers (Redis), and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
• Proven experience deploying and managing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in cloud environments
• BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with performance profiling of high-throughput services