Senior Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend components, services, and APIs.
• Architect and implement scalable, high-availability backend systems that can handle high traffic.
• Collaborate with frontend developers and other team members to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Optimize application performance, focusing on speed, scalability, and efficiency.
• Work with databases (SQL and NoSQL), ensuring data integrity, security, and optimization.
• Lead code reviews, provide technical mentorship, and ensure best coding practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and provide long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Implement security measures and safeguard sensitive information from common vulnerabilities.
• Monitor system performance and proactively resolve bottlenecks, improving system uptime and reliability.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and introduce relevant innovations into the backend development process.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Proficiency in server-side languages like Node.js, Python, Java, PHP.
• Expertise in RESTful API design and integration, understanding of microservices architecture is a plus.
• Strong experience with databases: both SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying, scaling, and managing services.
• Solid understanding of version control systems like Git.
• Experience with testing frameworks and writing automated tests.
• Familiarity with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka) and asynchronous processing.