Senior Backend Engineer (SDE 3)

Join our innovative team

Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Lead Project Delivery:

  Successfully and independently

  lead the end-to-end delivery

  of large-size projects, including scoping, planning, architecture design, hands-on development, rigorous testing, smooth rollout, and ongoing maintenance.

• Golang Development Best Practices:

  Design, develop, and deploy

  scalable, high-performance APIs and/or worker services primarily using Golang

  . Champion Go concurrency patterns, effective error handling, and building reusable, robust Go components.

• Technical Design Architecture:

  Create

  high-quality, loosely coupled, reliable, and extensible technical designs

  for distributed systems. Actively evaluate and articulate the

  trade-offs

  between different designs and apply the solution best suited to the situation/requirements.

• Code Quality Mentorship:

  Write

  clean, concise, modular, and well-tested code

  . Conduct thorough

  code reviews

  for junior engineers, providing

  constant and constructive feedback

  to elevate the team s overall coding standard.

• System Health Observability:

  Constantly improve the health and quality of the services/code you work on by defining and implementing

  best practices

  for monitoring, logging, and alerting. Actively utilize

  observability tools

  (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic) to proactively ensure system reliability and performance.

• Operational Excellence:

  Participate in the teams

  on-call rotation

  and take a leadership role in the troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution process for critical production issues related to owned services.

• Collaboration Documentation:

  Lead

  cross-team collaborations

  for your projects, ensuring alignment and clear communication. Proactively contribute to building and maintaining high-quality

  documentation

  for the teams services and architectural decisions.

• Team Growth Coaching:

  Actively support hiring and on-boarding activities.

  Coach and mentor

  junior and mid-level developers, contributing to knowledge sharing and developing their technical and professional skills.

Qualifications and Deep Experience

• Experience:

  4-7 years

  of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying mid-to-large-scale applications.

• Golang Focus:

  2-3 years of recent and active hands-on experience in Golang

  writing and deploying

  scalable APIs and/or asynchronous workers

  . Demonstrated robust understanding of Golang concepts, concurrency models, and best practices.

• Distributed Systems:

  Strong experience in designing and implementing

  loosely coupled, reliable, and extensible distributed services

  .

• Data Messaging:

  • Strong data modeling experience

    in Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Solid experience with

    message broker services

    (e.g.,

    Kafka, SQS

    ) for building event-driven and asynchronous systems.
  • Experience with high-throughput

    in-memory data stores

    like

    Redis

    .

• Core Engineering Principles:

  Practical working knowledge of key software engineering concepts including:

  SOLID

  principles,

  DRY

  (Dont Repeat Yourself),

  KISS

  (Keep It Simple, Stupid),

  Clean Code

  , Modular coding, and building easily

  Testable Code

  with a focus on comprehensive

  unit testing

  .

• Security Networking Basics:

  Foundational knowledge of

  authentication and authorization

  mechanisms,

  basic application security

  concepts, and implementing

  rate limiting

  .

• Soft Skills:

  Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills

  . Self-driven with a passion for learning new things quickly, solving challenging problems, and the drive to get better.

Nice to Have:

• Data Warehousing:

  Experience working with large-scale data warehousing solutions like

  BigQuery

  .

• Data Serialization:

  Understanding of data serialization formats such as

  Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)

  or

  Avro

  .

• NoSQL Cloud:

  Experience with

  NoSQL databases

  (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB) and familiarity with deploying and operating services on a major

  public cloud

  provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Education:

  A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience/education.