Backend Engineer

As a highly capable Backend developer at QueueBuster, your primary focus will be to optimize the web-based application performance by developing all server-side logic, maintaining the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to server-side requests. You will collaborate with front-end application developers, design back-end components, and integrate data storage and protection solutions. **Responsibilities:** - Work with the team, collaborating with other engineers, Frontend teams, and product teams to design and build backend applications and services - Completely own the application features end-to-end, through design, development, testing, launch, and post-launch support - Deploy and maintain applications on cloud-hosted platforms - Build performant, scalable, secure, and reliable applications - Write high-quality, clean, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews - Develop backend server code, APIs, and database functionality - Propose coding standards, tools, frameworks, automation, and processes for the team - Lead technical architecture and design for application development - Work on POCs, try new ideas, and influence the product roadmap - Update and alter application features to enhance performance - Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards **Requirements:** - At least 4+ years of experience in Node.js, MySQL, and backend development - Experience in PHP and NoSQL is preferred - Exceptional communication, organization, and leadership skills - Excellent debugging and optimization skills - Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs - Expert level with Web Server setup/management with at least one of Nginx, Tomcat, including troubleshooting and setup on a cloud environment - Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, familiarity with SQL/NoSQL and Graph databases, specifically MySQL, Neo4j, Elastic, Redis, etc. with hands-on experience in using AWS technologies like EC2 lambda functions, SNS, SQS and worked on serverless architecture and having an exceptional track record in cloud ops for a live app - Branching and Version Control best practices - Expertise in building scalable microservices, database design, and service architecture - Solid foundation in computer science with strong competency in OOPS, data structures, algorithms, and software design - Strong Linux skills with troubleshooting, monitoring, and log file setup/analysis experience - Troubleshooting application and code issues - Knowledge of setting up unit tests - Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies - Knowledge expected in Cloud Computing, threading, performance tuning, and security **Preferred Qualifications:** - High ownership and the right attitude towards work - Interest in learning new tools and technologies - Proficiency in designing and coding web applications and/or services, ensuring high quality and performance, fixing application bugs, maintaining the code, and deploying apps to various environments - A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred,