Senior Backend Engineer

Full-Time Employee (FTE) Position Only
No C2C No Third-Party Vendors No Staffing Agencies Please

• Design develop and maintain scalable backend services using clean architecture and engineering best practices
• Build and optimize data models and queries for performance consistency and reliability
• Prepare functional requirements and technical documentation for new features and system enhancements
• Analyze performance bottlenecks identify root causes and drive scalable cost-effective improvements
• Own the full backend lifecycle
• development testing deployment and monitoring
• Work through the support request chain performing root cause analysis and resolving issues end-to-end
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver complete features across the stack
• Write clear technical documentation and contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews
• Own testing strategy and execution (unit integration and beyond) using Jest in a QA-less environment
• Continuously reduce technical debt and improve system performance scalability and reliability

REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years of professional software development with a strong backend focus
• Proven production experience with and

• schema design query optimization performance tuning
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL and/or CockroachDB
• Solid AWS experience: Lambda SQS EventBridge S3 ECR Certificate Manager Secrets Manager Systems Manager
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with observability and log aggregation particularly Splunk
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and event-driven architectures
• Ability to make independent architectural and technical decisions
• Experience conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback
• Proactive about identifying technical debt and proposing improvements
• Strong problem-solving mindset and clear communication skills