Junior Backend Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains backend services for a global food-delivery platform, using cloud tools, CI/CD, and microservices to ensure scalable, reliable systems.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and implementing the features which will be used across the global platform.
- Collaborate within cross-functional, international teams to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, driving holistic solutions.
- Contributing to designing and evolving the system architecture to meet current needs and support future growth and technologies.
- Enforcing coding standards and conducting thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality codebase. Implement automated testing frameworks to catch bugs early and ensure software reliability.
- Good understanding and independent application of cloud environment, CI/CD, testing and validation.
- Independently applies design patterns and best practices in reliability management (resiliency, autoscaling, monitoring, alerting).
- Identifying and resolving complex technical issues in software and infrastructure, continuously optimising for performance and scalability.
What you need to be successful
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 1 year of working experience in backend development.
- Practical experience with software architecture, design patterns, design principles, algorithms, and writing automated tests (unit, integration, and functional).
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and patterns, aiding in the development of scalable and maintainable systems, is a strong plus.
- Solid understanding of relational and distributed databases (normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, index anatomy & concepts of distributed databases).
- Experience with the software development lifecycle and collaboration within cross-functional, international agile teams.
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.