Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a skilled Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to design and operate large-scale backend services in a full-time remote capacity, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance while mentoring mid-level engineers and driving architectural strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems using Java, Go, Scala, or similar languages
• Architect data partitioning, replication, and consistency strategies tailored to workload 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, particularly in distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar high-performance languages
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus and CAP trade-offs
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka