Expert Backend Engineer

Purpose

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Design complex backend architectures, services, APIs, and integration patterns across multiple squads.
• Act as senior technical authority for critical backend systems and lead their implementation.
• Define and enforce backend engineering standards, patterns, and development practices.
• Ensure solutions meet scalability, security, resilience, performance, and availability requirements.
• Design for high availability and resilience in payment-critical, always-on services.
• Review complex code, technical designs, and implementation approaches.
• Resolve critical production incidents and drive root-cause remediation.
• Optimize application performance, database interactions, and service communication.
• Align designs with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.
• Mentor backend engineers and raise the technical bar across the chapter.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption.

Additional Scope

Requirements

• Serve as a senior technical authority for critical backend systems.
• Design highly scalable, resilient, secure, performant, and available backend solutions.
• Lead implementation of critical backend systems across multiple squads.
• Define and enforce backend engineering standards, patterns, and development practices.
• Mentor backend engineers and raise technical standards across the chapter.