Senior Backend Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

📍 Location: UK, Europe, Asia

🔍 Industry: Blockchain

🏢 Company: Babylon Labs

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentBlockchainDesign PatternsMongoDBRabbitmqSoftware ArchitectureGrafanaPrometheusREST APICI/CDLinuxDevOpsMicroservicesJSONSoftware Engineering

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in backend development, with at least 2 years of hands-on experience with Golang.
Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices architectures within the AWS ecosystem.
Proven track record of owning the development process from the design phases to production deployment, particularly in blockchain or decentralized application (dApp) environments, with a strong emphasis on security.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, including experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ and data stores like MongoDB.
Solid grasp of CI/CD practices and tools, ensuring smooth and reliable deployments.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Responsibilities:

Develop and deploy features and capabilities that are highly scalable, optimized for performance, and built with the unique demands of decentralized systems in mind.
Conduct thorough code reviews, prioritizing best practices in readability, testing, documentation, and performance, with a particular focus on security, reliability and blockchain-specific concerns.
Maintain comprehensive visibility, error reporting, and monitoring to ensure the backend services consistently perform at a high level.
Collaborate in a fast-paced, dynamic, open, and cooperative work environment alongside skilled engineers, DevOps, product designers, and engineering managers.
Bring a strong architectural design mindset, with the ability to design and guide the development of medium to large-scale distributed systems that leverage blockchain technology and ensure end-to-end security from frontend to backend.

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