Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend components, services, and APIs.
- Architect and implement scalable, high-availability backend systems that can handle high traffic.
- Collaborate with frontend developers and other team members to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Optimize application performance, focusing on speed, scalability, and efficiency.
- Work with databases (SQL and NoSQL), ensuring data integrity, security, and optimization.
- Lead code reviews, provide technical mentorship, and ensure best coding practices across the team.
- Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and provide long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Implement security measures and safeguard sensitive information from common vulnerabilities.
- Monitor system performance and proactively resolve bottlenecks, improving system uptime and reliability.
- Stay updated with the latest technologies and introduce relevant innovations into the backend development process.
Skills
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in backend development.
- Proficiency in server-side languages like Node.js, Python, Java, PHP.
- Expertise in RESTful API design and integration, understanding of microservices architecture is a plus.
- Strong experience with databases: both SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying, scaling, and managing services.
- Solid understanding of version control systems like Git.
- Experience with testing frameworks and writing automated tests.
- Familiarity with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka) and asynchronous processing.