Senior Backend Engineer

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TruelogicDigital media
Location: LatAmFull-TimeSenior
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Languages
Fluent English communication skills
Experience
5+ years of backend engineering experience
Required Skills
AWSGraphQLGCPJavaGogRPCRESTful APIsDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with senior-level ownership of production services.
  • Strong professional experience with Java and Go, including production experience with both.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and Google Cloud, including managed services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Lambda, RDS, or equivalent technologies.
  • Strong understanding of API design and distributed systems, with experience using REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC.
  • Strong experience with authentication and identity systems, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SSO, session management, and token management.
  • Experience migrating services or capabilities away from a third-party vendor, CMS, or legacy platform.
  • Strong understanding of production observability and reliability, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
  • Ability to design and deliver scalable, maintainable backend services with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Comfortable working in an AI-first engineering environment, using AI coding assistants and agentic development tools as part of the software development workflow.
  • Fluent English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own production-grade backend services that replace capabilities currently provided by third-party CMS platforms.
  • Lead the design and implementation of an authentication and identity service, including secure session and token management.
  • Define and implement APIs that support the headless frontend and other digital products.
  • Design solutions using REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC and distributed systems principles.
  • Plan and execute service migrations from vendor or legacy platforms with minimal disruption to existing users and systems.
  • Build and operate cloud-native services across AWS and Google Cloud.
  • Implement and maintain logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for production services.
  • Collaborate with the Platform Engineering Manager and other engineering stakeholders on technical decisions and implementation strategy.
  • Mentor a mid-level engineer and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
  • Leverage and help shape AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
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