Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs
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About the Role
A partner company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a globally distributed team building high-performance backend systems for fraud detection. The role involves designing scalable APIs and distributed services, owning features from architecture to deployment, and mentoring junior engineers.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs capable of processing large volumes of real time data
- Build, optimize, and enhance distributed services while ensuring seamless integration across platform components
- Investigate complex technical issues through root cause analysis, experimentation, and performance testing
- Monitor, debug, and optimize backend services to maintain system stability, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Collaborate closely with cross functional engineering teams to deliver robust, production ready solutions
- Participate in a shared on call rotation for operational excellence and rapid incident resolution
- Promote engineering best practices, contribute to a data driven development culture, and mentor junior engineers
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering
- Strong hands on experience with Go (Golang) and/or Node.js, with willingness to work across both
- Proven expertise designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, and real time processing platforms
- Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability challenges, and performance optimization
- Strong experience with SQL databases and technologies such as DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar
- Proficiency with modern software engineering practices including Git, CI/CD pipelines, shell scripting
- Excellent English communication skills with experience collaborating in fully remote, international teams
- Ability to work independently while contributing to collaborative engineering initiatives
- Passion for mentoring teammates and fostering a culture of continuous learning
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred
Full Job Posting
Overview
- This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.
- Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs based in United Arab Emirates.
- Join a globally distributed engineering team building high performance backend systems that power large scale, real time applications.
- You'll design and optimize scalable APIs and distributed services that support mission critical fraud detection technology.
Accountabilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs capable of processing large volumes of real time data with high reliability and performance.
- Build, optimize, and enhance distributed services while ensuring seamless integration across platform components.
- Investigate complex technical issues through root cause analysis, experimentation, and performance testing.
- Monitor, debug, and optimize backend services to maintain system stability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with cross functional engineering teams to deliver robust, production ready solutions.
- Participate in a shared on call rotation, contributing to operational excellence and rapid incident resolution.
- Promote engineering best practices, contribute to a data driven development culture, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering.
- Strong hands on experience with Go (Golang) and/or Node.js, with a willingness to work across both technologies.
- Proven expertise designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, and real time processing platforms.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability challenges, and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong experience working with SQL databases and technologies such as DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar.
- Proficiency with modern software engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, shell scripting, and development tools.
- Excellent English communication skills with experience collaborating effectively in fully remote, international teams.
- Ability to work independently while contributing to collaborative engineering initiatives.
- Passion for mentoring teammates and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Datadog, Docker, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Express, or dbt is considered a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with internet security, privacy technologies, open source development, and asynchronous collaboration is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Fully remote position with the flexibility to work from anywhere in India.
- Opportunity to solve challenging large scale engineering problems using modern backend technologies.
- Work within a globally distributed engineering team focused on collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Exposure to cutting edge distributed systems, cloud native infrastructure, and real time data processing.
- Strong culture of knowledge sharing, mentorship, and continuous professional development.
- Participation in impactful engineering projects with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Inclusive and diverse work environment that values different perspectives and backgrounds.
- Competitive compensation aligned with experience and local market conditions.
- Flexible work environment designed to support work life balance.
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