Senior Backend Engineer
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Blanchard Executive Solutions (BES)Cyber threat intelligence
Location: Union City, NY, working primarily close to the US Eastern time zoneFull-TimeSenior
Salary135,000 - 160,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of professional experience in backend development
- Required Skills
- DockerPostgreSQLPythonElasticSearchKubernetesGogRPCCI/CDRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have 6+ years of professional experience in backend development.
- Demonstrate strong proficiency in Python; Go or Rust experience is a bonus.
- Have experience designing and maintaining scalable REST APIs and backend services.
- Bring deep experience in relational and non-relational database optimization, query tuning, and data partitioning at scale.
- Be comfortable with containerized, cloud-native environments, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrate expertise in distributed systems design, asynchronous processing, message queues, and high-availability patterns.
- Be able to write comprehensive unit and integration tests.
- Have experience establishing development best practices and mentoring junior engineers.
- Have in-depth familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern SCM tools such as Git.
- Be proficient with AI-assisted development tools while maintaining ownership and understanding of written code.
- Be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Architect, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and low-latency REST/gRPC APIs.
- Collaborate with platform and front-end engineers on data flow and API integration.
- Participate in system design reviews, distributed systems architecture planning, performance optimization, and code reviews.
- Optimize queries, indexing, and caching for PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and event-driven messaging queues.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and backend service deployment automation.
- Maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.
- Mentor junior engineers and establish backend development best practices.
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