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Key Responsibilities
Backend Ownership
Must Have
Engineering Mindset
Backend Ownership
- Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
- Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
- Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.
- Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
- Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
- Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.
- Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
- Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
- Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.
- Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
- Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
- Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
- Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.
- Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
- Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
- Raise overall engineering standards across teams.
- Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
- Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.
Must Have
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Node.js.
- Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
- Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.
- Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
- Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
- Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.
Engineering Mindset
- Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
- Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
- Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
- Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.
- Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
- Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
- Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
- Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance
- Monthly Wellness Leaves
- Competitive Compensation
- Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
- Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
- Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact
Skills
DebuggingDistributed SystemsMicroservices ArchitectureNode.jsTestingIf a job posting appears fraudulent, asks for payment, contains misleading information, or violates our guidelines, please report it immediately. Our team will review it promptly, Jobaaj does not charge any fee from the applicants.
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