Senior Software Architect - Backend & Distributed Systems
Remote (Pakistan), 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM PST (10:00 PM - 06:00 AM PKT)Full-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering or system architecture.
- Proven track record designing and maintaining high-traffic production systems.
- Strong experience with APIs, distributed systems, and backend services at scale.
- Systems thinking mindset: concurrency, performance bottlenecks, scaling strategies, failure modes, and resiliency.
- Ability to independently make high-impact architectural decisions.
- Experience in data-heavy systems, crawling infrastructure, or network-related systems is highly valuable.
- Python experience is a plus.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to enhance engineering productivity.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve backend systems that support high-volume traffic and production workloads.
- Lead major architectural improvements across APIs, crawlers, data ingestion pipelines, and core services.
- Design distributed systems with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Build new production systems from scratch while modernizing legacy components.
- Define system-level strategies for observability, failure handling, and long-term maintainability.
- Break down complex technical initiatives into clear, executable components.
- Drive performance optimization and infrastructure efficiency.
- Collaborate directly with leadership on long-term technical direction.
- Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, system design discussions, and engineering best practices.
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