Backend Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Design and lead the architecture of scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance backend systems.
• Translate business and technical requirements into robust backend architecture and technical specifications.
• Design and develop backend services, microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed applications.
• Define architecture standards, coding guidelines, design patterns, and backend engineering best practices.
• Develop scalable database architectures, data models, and data-access strategies for SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Design event-driven systems and asynchronous processing solutions using messaging technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Lead cloud-native backend development and deployment across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ensure backend systems meet performance, scalability, availability, security, and reliability requirements.
• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges related to system performance, concurrency, data consistency, and scalability.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design assessments.
• Establish API standards, versioning strategies, authentication, authorization, and integration patterns.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, and DevOps practices.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability to improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, DevOps, QA, security, product, and infrastructure teams.
• Lead application modernization, legacy-system migration, and backend performance optimization initiatives.
• Mentor backend developers and senior engineers while providing technical guidance to development teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions aligned with business objectives and engineering standards.
• Maintain architecture documentation, system diagrams, API specifications, and technical design documents.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of professional experience in backend development, software engineering, and system architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, Python, Go, C#, or Node.js.
• Expertise in backend frameworks such as Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core, Django, FastAPI, or NestJS.
• Proven experience designing scalable, distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput backend applications.
• Strong understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, SOLID principles, and domain-driven design.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, and enterprise application integrations.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, including database design, indexing, query optimization, and transaction management.
• Experience with caching solutions such as Redis and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-based messaging services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud-native backend architectures.
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong understanding of application security, encryption, OAuth 2.0, JWT, access control, and secure coding practices.
• Experience with performance tuning, load balancing, fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience leading technical initiatives, conducting architecture reviews, and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline; a Master's degree is an added advantage.
• Relevant cloud, backend development, or software architecture certifications are preferred.