Staff Engineer - Backend

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Deep understanding of API design and service-to-service communication.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience designing systems involving large datasets and high request volumes.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with caching and distributed caching strategies.
• Strong understanding of database indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data consistency.
• Experience designing reliable systems with retries, idempotency, timeouts, rate limiting, and failure recovery.
• Strong understanding of scalability, availability, consistency, and performance trade-offs.
• Experience diagnosing complex production issues using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineers or teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript and Go.
• Experience operating distributed systems at a significant scale.
• Experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, or similar databases.
• Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with Redis and distributed caching.
• Experience designing search, indexing, aggregation, and reporting systems.
• Experience with high-volume event processing and data pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tooling.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience with CRM, workflow automation, task management, messaging, or similar products.
• Experience performing large-scale data migrations without significant customer.

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Go.
• Databases and Search: MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Caching: Redis Messaging and Events: Kafka, Pub/Sub.
• Architecture: Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Systems.
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP.
• Observability: Metrics, Logs, Distributed Tracing, and Alerting.