Job
Description
As the Backend Architect at our company, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing the overall backend architecture for multi-tenant SaaS applications. Your responsibilities will include: - Defining and implementing the overall backend architecture for multi-tenant SaaS applications, ensuring scalability, high availability, security, and compliance. - Designing microservices and RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Websockets in alignment with front-end and AI requirements. - Establishing design patterns and best practices for code modularity, performance optimization, and scalability. - Identifying performance bottlenecks and overseeing optimization strategies (caching, load balancing, message queues, etc.). - Implementing and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack) to ensure real-time system health insights and rapid incident response. - Establishing performance baselines, conducting stress tests, and implementing disaster recovery strategies. - Proactively monitoring production environments, anticipating potential failures and bottlenecks. - Triaging, diagnosing, and resolving production incidents with minimal downtime, using robust logging, tracing, and on-call rotation strategies. - Driving root cause analysis and post-mortems for production incidents, implementing preventative measures. - Working closely with the AI team to integrate MLOps pipelines, ensuring smooth data flow and secure model deployment. - Collaborating with the Frontend team to provide well-defined API contracts, enabling efficient UI/UX development. - Partnering with DevOps to define CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) practices. - Leading and mentoring a team of backend developers, setting clear goals and providing guidance on best practices. - Performing code reviews to ensure high code quality, maintainability, and adherence to design standards. - Fostering a culture of continuous learning, encouraging the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies. - Implementing secure coding practices and following industry standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10). - Working with compliance teams to ensure data privacy and regulatory requirements (HIPAA) are met. - Overseeing authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and data encryption at rest and in transit (Encryption, SSL/TLS). - Maintaining comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, APIs, database schemas, and operational runbooks. - Facilitating knowledge sharing sessions and handovers to ensure smooth onboarding of new team members. **Qualifications:** - 8+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development, with 3+ years in a technical lead or architect role. - Demonstrated history of leading and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments. **Technical Expertise:** - Languages & Frameworks: Proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python) and associated frameworks (Django/FastAPI, etc.). - Database Systems: Strong knowledge of both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases, including data modeling and query optimization. - Microservices & Architecture: Hands-on experience with microservices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh architectures. - Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud providers like AWS and Azure for deployment, scaling, and monitoring. - CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing. - Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki for real-time monitoring and log analysis. **Soft Skills:** - Leadership: Ability to lead teams, manage conflict, and drive a vision for the backend architecture. - Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with cross-functional teams (AI, Frontend, QA, Product). - Problem-Solving: Analytical mindset for troubleshooting complex issues in high-pressure environments. - Collaboration: Demonstrated capability to work seamlessly across multiple teams and stakeholders. This is a full-time, permanent position with a day shift schedule. The work location is in person.,
