Senior Backend Engineer
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Based in the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary$120,000 to $190,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonJavaGoReact
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or similar technologies.
- Proven experience designing scalable APIs and backend services for customer-facing or high-scale enterprise applications.
- Strong expertise with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and modern backend infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, security principles, fraud prevention, or related domains.
- Familiarity with modern frontend technologies such as React, Vue, or similar frameworks is a plus.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and technical decision-making skills.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that support identity verification, authentication, account recovery, and security workflows.
- Own database architecture, schema design, migrations, query optimization, and data integrity to ensure reliable and efficient system performance.
- Build secure authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms while maintaining high standards for system reliability and correctness.
- Contribute to architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, and backend engineering best practices that support long-term platform scalability.
- Partner with product and design teams to deliver intuitive, secure, and high-quality customer-facing features and internal tools.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues while continuously improving performance, observability, deployment processes, and system resilience.
- Participate in code reviews, mentor fellow engineers, and promote engineering excellence through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Support cross-functional initiatives by contributing across the technology stack when needed and integrating backend systems with external services and applications.
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