Backend engineer

Key Responsibilities

 Design and build scalable backend services using Java or Go.

 Develop reliable REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs.

 Design distributed systems, microservices, data models, and event-driven architectures.

 Improve system latency, throughput, availability, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency.

 Work with Kafka, Redis/Valkey, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.

 Own production monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.

 Required Experience

 5+ years of backend engineering experience.

 Strong programming skills in Java or Go.

 Experience building high-scale, low-latency production systems.

 Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.

 Experience with Kafka, caching systems, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.

 Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Prometheus, and Grafana.

 Strong system design, debugging, testing, and end-to-end production ownership skills.

 Nice to Have

Experience in AI-powered applications, search and recommendation systems, or data engineering would be an added advantage.