Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop scalable backend systems and APIs
• Own features end-to-end, from design to deployment and monitoring
• Enforce best practices in clean code, testing, and secure development
• Drive improvements in system performance, observability, and reliability
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, and DevOps teams
• Participate in sprint planning, estimations, and code reviews
• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Proven experience architecting and scaling systems
• Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, caching strategies, and optimization
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience writing unit tests and working in a test-driven environment
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Strong knowledge of API versioning and backward compatibility strategies
• Familiarity with observability tools (Sentry, Grafana, ELK)
• Strong knowledge of security practices (encryption, rate limiting, secrets management).

Nice to Have

• Experience with microservice architecture
• Experience with Golang, or Nodejs
• Contributions to open-source projects