As a Backend Engineer, you will work with other Engineers, Product Managers (PMs), and Designers to design, build, and maintain high-performance APIs and backend systems that power our customer experiences. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor early-career engineers and help guide the technical roadmap of our backend architecture.

Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to design and build scalable backend services and APIs.

- Coach and mentor junior team members, sharing best practices and code reviews.

- Shape the technical roadmap and backend architecture strategy.

- Define and uphold backend engineering standards and practices.

- Develop, test, and maintain services using modern backend frameworks like NestJS (Node.js ).

- Work with databases, queues, caching, and observability tools to ensure backend reliability and performance.

- Ensure services are well-instrumented, observable, and resilient.

- Participate in design and architecture discussions and contribute to key technology decisions.

- Collaborate across teams to troubleshoot, optimize, and deliver backend services that integrate seamlessly with frontend applications and external APIs.

Requirements :

- Belief in Kindness, Gratitude, and Curiosity!

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- 5-8 years of software development experience, with a strong backend engineering focus.

- 3+ years of experience in Node.js, preferably using NestJS or similar frameworks.

- Experience building and scaling APIs, microservices, and backend systems.

- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and asynchronous patterns.

- Experience with Redis, NoSQL, and/or relational databases.

- Familiarity with message queues, background jobs, and caching layers.

- Experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services.

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

- Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional environment.

- A continuous learning mindset and awareness of current backend trends and best practices.