Lead Backend Engineer

Lead Backend Engineer

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About Comify

At Comify

Our mission is to empower developers and businesses to launch communication flows faster, smarter, and with less effort. If you’re a geeky problem solver who loves designing elegant backend systems, you’ll love it here.

Role Summary

As a Lead Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• API Design:

  Develop clean, scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL) to power our platform and integrations.

• Architecture Design:

  Design and scale backend architecture to support real-time and batch communication workflows.

• ETL Pipelines:

  Build efficient ETL and data processing pipelines for user events, communication logs, and analytics.

• DevOps & Monitoring:

  Deploy, monitor, and scale services using modern DevOps tools and cloud platforms (AWS).

• Optimization:

  Continuously profile and optimize backend systems for performance, reliability, and cost.

• Collaboration:

  Work closely with teams to ship features quickly.

• Best Practices:

  Write clean, maintainable code with unit/integration tests, documentation, and CI/CD practices.

Requirements

• Experience:

  4–8 years of backend engineering experience.

• Languages:

  Strong knowledge of at least one backend stack — Node.js, Python, or preferred.

• Databases:

  Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Redshift or similar data stores.

• Architecture:

  Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture.

• Cloud:

  Hands-on experience with AWS is a strong plus.

• Problem Solving:

  You love debugging, optimizing, and scaling systems under load.

• Mindset:

  Geeky, curious, and obsessed with building great systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience with messaging infrastructure (e.g., SQS, Twilio, WhatsApp APIs).
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Exposure to AI/ML-based systems and data pipelines.

What We Offer

• Friendly work culture environment to grow and sharpen your skills
• Chance to work on cutting-edge communication and AI problems
• Fast-paced, high-ownership environment with real impact
• Competitive salary & meaningful equity