Back End Developer

Job Title: Backend Engineer

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About Us

Uplevyl

We’re looking for someone who gets community—because they’ve built one. Someone who understands the operational bottlenecks and the daily wins of growing a thriving space. Most importantly, someone who can now take that expertise and help us bring this new generation of agentic communities to life. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend services for large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS applications. 
• Develop and optimize GraphQL APIs for seamless integration across products and AI-driven systems. 
• Work with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases, ensuring efficient schema design and performance. 
• Architect, deploy, and scale microservices in containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes). 
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka, Kinesis, or RabbitMQ. 
• Leverage AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cognito) to ensure high availability, security, and scalability. 
• Collaborate with frontend and AI teams to deliver integrated solutions for intelligent community systems. 
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize backend applications for performance and reliability. 

Performance Expectations

• Deliver secure, scalable, and production-ready backend services within project timelines. 
• Maintain high system uptime and performance across distributed environments. 
• Proactively address architectural challenges in multi-tenant SaaS and event-driven systems. 
• Demonstrate strong ownership of backend infrastructure, from design through deployment. 
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product integration. 

Opportunities & Challenges

• Opportunities:

   
• Work on backend systems powering next-generation AI-driven community platforms. 
• Build multi-tenant architecture that can scale globally. 
• Gain exposure to AI integration and advanced API ecosystems. 

• Challenges:

   
• Architecting for scale while maintaining high performance and low latency. 
• Ensuring fault tolerance and reliability in distributed event-driven systems. 
• Navigating complex SaaS deployments across cloud-native environments. 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer in large-scale applications. 
• Strong expertise in

  Nest.js (Node.js)

  with hands-on experience building GraphQL APIs. 
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases. 
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). 
• Hands-on experience with

  AWS stack

  (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cognito). 
• Knowledge of event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ). 
• Familiarity with AI and API integration is a strong plus. 
• Experience designing and scaling multi-tenant SaaS architectures.