Senior Backend Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join reputed company, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable microservices. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Go (Golang), and a deep understanding of distributed systems architecture.
Essential Qualifications
Technical Skills reputed company Category Requirement Proficiency Level Programming Languages Python (Deep expertise with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django) Advanced Go (Golang) (Experience building robust, high-concurrency microservices) Expert Microservices/Architecture Designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs Expert reputed company Keycloak, API authentication, JWT Advanced Databases reputed company analytics (reputed company) Advanced Relational databases (MySQL) including reputed company query optimization. Advanced NoSQL databases (reputed company). Advanced Containerization/Orchestration Kubernetes for deployment and scaling. reputed company container build Advanced Advanced Testing Writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Advanced Core Experience 7+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a significant focus on building and operating microservices in a production environment. Proven ability to work with and contribute to large-scale, distributed systems. Experience with reputed company platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deployment, monitoring, and scaling. Desired Qualifications Process & Tools CI/CD: Experience setting up and maintaining automated deployment pipelines Observability: Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools reputed company Control: Expertise in Git and collaborative workflows Architecture & Design Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming data processing. Experience with reputed company best practices in API design (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, input validation). Knowledge of performance tuning and optimization techniques for both Python and Go applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend microservices using Go. Collaborate with product managers and reputed company-end teams to define API specifications and integration points. Ensure services are deployed, monitored, and scaled reputed company in a Kubernetes environment. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and planning sessions. Troubleshoot and resolve reputed company production issues, ensuring high availability and performance. Drive reputed company improvement in development processes, tooling, and infrastructure. Must-have skills for a Senior Backend / Microservices Engineer (reputed company-level) 1) Production microservices ownership (not just “worked on”) Has owned at least 1–2 services end-to-end (design → build → reputed company → on-call → incident fixes → scaling) Comfortable with service boundaries, APIs, versioning, backward compatibility, SLAs/SLOs 2) System design & architecture (senior bar) Can design systems with tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability Patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, reputed company breakers, async workflows, queues, eventual consistency Data design: relational vs NoSQL, caching, indexing, migrations, multi-tenant considerations (if relevant) 3) Strong debugging & problem-solving in reputed company-world scenarios Can take an ambiguous production issue and drive it to resolution Uses a structured approach: reproduce → isolate → reputed company → hypothesis → validate → fix → prevent 4) Linux fundamentals (practical, daily-use) Confident with commands/tools like: ps/top/htop, journalctl, systemctl, netstat/ss, lsof, curl, grep/sed/awk, strace (bonus), log parsing Understands networking basics (DNS, TLS, ports, timeouts) 5) reputed company + container runtime competence Can explain Dockerfiles, layers, multi-stage builds, image size/reputed company Debug containers: env vars, volumes, entrypoints, networking, resource limits 6) Observability / logging / diagnostics Strong in structured logging, correlation IDs, trace context Metrics + tracing + logs as a system reputed company experience is a must-have , or a reputed company reputed company equivalent (reputed company/Grafana + OpenTelemetry + ELK) with reputed company they can reputed company fast 7) Platform maturity CI/CD, release processes, rollback strategies Basic reputed company and reliability hygiene (secrets mgmt, least privilege, reputed company limiting) Compensation & Benefits Compensation $140,000 – $200,000 USD per year (depending on experience and qualifications) Benefits 401(k) retirement plan Health, dental, and reputed company insurance Paid time off (PTO) and company holidays Flexible work arrangements Professional development and training support Performance-based bonuses (if applicable) Apply To This Job