Senior Backend Developer

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100% Remote (Continental United States)Full-TimeSenior

Salary100,000 - 150,000 USD per year

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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar.
Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka.
Experience operating systems at scale, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL data stores.
Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
Excellent communication, documentation, and mentorship skills.

Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages.
Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies appropriate to each workload’s requirements.
Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong observability, idempotency, and graceful degradation patterns.
Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost, using profiling, benchmarking, and load testing.
Lead detailed architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and trade-off analyses.
Implement robust failure-handling patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and saga workflows.
Build comprehensive observability into services with structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
Mentor mid-level engineers and lead by example in code quality, design, and operational rigor.

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