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 operating large-scale backend services, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.

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 while optimizing for latency, throughput, and cost

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 with distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus and replication
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput message systems such as Kafka