Senior Backend Engineer

• Design & Strategy: Lead the design of scalable event-driven backend services making pragmatic decisions on when to build new versus refactor old.
• System Decoupling: Strategically dismantle a monolithic legacy application migrating logic into modern independent microservices without disrupting business operations.
• Modernization: Lead the structured migration of legacy backend systems to modern frameworks ensuring production stability minimizing technical debt and maintaining long-term maintainability.

• AI Integration: Architect backend pipelines that integrate with LLMs to power advanced search automation and generative features.
• Build robust APIs and services that support our product roadmap ensuring they are AI-ready.

• Database Optimization: Analyze and optimize complex MySQL data models and queries for speed. Implement advanced caching strategies using Redis.
• Monitoring: Proactively identify and diagnose performance issues using observability tools like New Relic and Kibana.
• Scale: Ensure our infrastructure on AWS (EC2/ECS) is tuned to handle high traffic and growth spikes.

• Code Quality: Ensure software reliability by enforcing strict testing and review standards.
• Mentorship: Support team growth by mentoring mid-level engineers and leading technical discussions.

• Experience: 8 years in backend engineering.
• Languages: Expert in PHP (Laravel Symfony Yii ) with working knowledge of .
• Databases: Advanced skills in MySQL and Redis.
• Cloud: Solid experience with AWS (EC2 ECS RDS).
• Messaging: Familiarity with queues like RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ.
• Search: Experience with Algolia or similar search engines.
• Mindset: Strong focus on product ownership and business impact.

• Cloud Native: Strong experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EC2 ECS RDS).
• Asynchronous Systems: Hands‑on experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ ActiveMQ) and event‑driven architecture.
• Search: Familiarity with implementing and tuning search engines (Algolia or Elasticsearch).

• Product Mindset: You understand that code is a tool to solve business problems.
• Ownership: You take full accountability for your features from the whiteboard design to production monitoring.

• Impact: Contribute directly to the design and evolution of a high-scale backend platform.
• Technical Challenge: Work on complex backend problems including modernizing legacy systems integrating AI features and optimizing system performance.
• Autonomy: Take ownership of technical decisions and deliver solutions independently.
• Professional Growth: Collaborate with a team committed to maintainable code modern engineering practices and continuous improvement.

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