Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a skilled Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to work remotely in a full-time capacity, responsible for designing and implementing large-scale distributed backend systems, architecting data strategies, and building resilient APIs while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies appropriate to each workload's requirements
• Build resilient APIs and event-driven services with strong observability and failure-handling patterns

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Six or more years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant time on distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka