Senior Software Engineer

What You'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs.
• Build production-ready systems with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Own backend features and projects end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing improvements.
• Work with distributed systems and event-driven architectures, including messaging and asynchronous data flows.
• Design and implement APIs and services that integrate with other internal and external systems.
• Work with large and complex data flows and understand how data moves through backend systems.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve services running in production.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions and help make sound technical decisions.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, Product, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver complete solutions.
• Investigate complex production issues and identify root causes rather than only addressing symptoms.
• Improve existing systems and proactively identify opportunities to increase reliability, performance, and engineering efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

What you bring

• 6-7 years of professional experience in backend software engineering and building production systems.
• Strong experience with Node.js or a similar backend technology.
• Deep understanding of backend development principles, APIs, services, databases, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building and operating production applications, including debugging and troubleshooting real-world issues.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging technologies, particularly Kafka.
• Experience designing and working with GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services; GCP experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and system design.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex projects and drive them from design through production.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to investigate complex technical issues independently.
• Ability to work effectively with other engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to make and explain technical decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NestJS.
• Strong experience with GCP and cloud-native services.
• Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Experience with CI/CD and production deployment pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Experience with high-scale or distributed systems.
• Experience with Angular or other frontend technologies is a plus.
• Experience working across the full stack is a plus.

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