Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout
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About the Role
Salla seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale backend systems for checkout, payments, and promotions. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with distributed systems.
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems
- Develop clean, maintainable, and high performance production code
- Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third party services
- Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads
- Drive architectural decisions with scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence in mind
- Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning
- Ensure services are production ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability best practices
- Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews
- Leverage AI assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality
- Mentor junior and mid level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices
- Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and production support
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience designing and building scalable backend services
- Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs and integrations
- Experience with distributed systems and handling high traffic
- Ability to drive architectural decisions with scalability and resilience in mind
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability best practices
- Ability to write comprehensive unit and integration tests
- Experience mentoring junior and mid level engineers
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Role Overview
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer Checkout to join our engineering team focused on Fintech, Checkout, and Promotions. You will design, build, and scale highly available backend systems that power mission critical payment experiences, checkout flows, promotions, loyalty, pricing, and fin
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems.
- Develop clean, maintainable, and high performance production code with readability and long term ownership in mind.
- Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third party services.
- Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads.
- Drive architectural decisions with scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence in mind.
- Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning.
- Ensure services are production ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability best practices.
- Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews.
- Leverage AI assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality.
- Mentor junior and mid level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
- Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and production support.
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