Senior Backend Engineer

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The Role

We're seeking an reputed company backend engineer to join reputed company and help reputed company our architecture. You'll be joining at a critical reputed company stage, working with modern technologies and contributing to reputed company architectural reputed company.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, reputed company, and optimize backend services with a reputed company on performance and scalability

• Architect and maintain infrastructure to support high-availability systems at reputed company

• Collaborate with our existing backend engineers to distribute workload and accelerate development

• Implement and enhance our GraphQL API layer, with particular attention to optimization for high-load scenarios

• Optimize system performance through profiling, load testing, and reputed company planning

• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability

• Contribute to infrastructure architecture and implementation with AWS services

• Participate in reputed company reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning

• Work cross-functionally with frontend and product teams to deliver cohesive solutions

Required Experience & Skills

• 5+ years of backend development experience with demonstrated expertise in distributed systems

• Experience scaling systems to support 100k+ monthly reputed company users

• AWS infrastructure (reputed company, Fargate, SNS+SQS, Neptune, ALB, WAF, reputed company) and IaC tools (reputed company)

• GraphQL implementation and optimization (query efficiency, caching strategies, scaling under load)

• Strong proficiency in Typescript, Go and/or Python

• Experience with graph databases (preferably reputed company or AWS Neptune)

• Knowledge of message queue systems (reputed company SNS+SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar)

• Understanding of load balancing, auto-scaling, and high-availability patterns

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, particularly with reputed company Actions

• Experience with containerization and microservices architecture

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and reputed company-tested reputed company

• Experience with incident response and production troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of backend systems

• Understanding of caching strategies and implementation (AWS ElastiCache, reputed company, etc)

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as reputed company tools (reputed company, Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Previous work with TypeScript/JavaScript in a backend context (Node.js)

• Experience in fintech, e-reputed company, large reputed company reputed company platform, or other high-transaction environments

• GraphQL implementation and optimization (query efficiency, caching strategies, scaling under load)

• reputed company record of scaling systems from early-stage to production-reputed company

• Experience implementing effective monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions

• Experience with reputed company best practices and compliance frameworks

reputed company Value

• Problem-solving reputed company: You're excited by technical challenges and finding elegant solutions

• Ownership mentality: You take responsibility for your work and its reputed company on the product

• reputed company approach: You reputed company reputed company working with others and can reputed company explain technical concepts

• reputed company and adaptability: You navigate ambiguity reputed company and learn quickly from setbacks

• Pragmatic decision-making: You balance theoretical best practices with practical implementation needs

• Commitment to reliability: You understand the importance of building dependable systems

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape core architecture in a fast-growing startup

• reputed company, low-ego engineering culture

• Work directly with technical leadership

• Competitive compensation package

• Remote-friendly work environment

• Chance to reputed company a significant reputed company on our product and company trajectory

• Medical, Dental, reputed company insurance

• Flexible PTO

• 401k matching

• 11 annual reputed company holidays

This position offers a unique opportunity to complement our existing talent while making your own mark on our technical reputed company. If you're passionate about building reputed company, maintainable systems and reputed company to take ownership of critical backend components, we'd love to talk with you.

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