Full-Time Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Staff-level role: Not just an expert coder, but a leader defining and owning backend architecture across multiple systems/domains. Drives engineering culture by mentoring others, shapes standards, and acts as a go-to for technical guidance, complex debugging, and high-stakes decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design & implement robust, scalable, high-performance backend systems, APIs, & services using best-in-class practices.
• Take ownership of system-wide components (planning to deployment & monitoring).
• Collaborate with product owners, frontend teams, DevOps, and architects to translate business needs into engineering solutions.
• Review & approve complex code changes, ensuring maintainability, performance, & security.
• Lead/participate in system-wide debugging, profiling, and performance tuning efforts.
• Drive technical direction of backend projects, including framework selection, API design, and service boundaries.
• Mentor engineers in clean code, domain-driven design, and performance-first development.
• Support the team during on-call duties, lead incident responses & postmortems.
• Define & enforce technical standards, review pull requests, and uphold best practices in version control, CI/CD, & automated testing.
• Contribute to the evolution of development pipelines, test strategies, & deployment tooling.
• Assist in recruitment by conducting technical interviews & coding assessments.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years backend development experience, including designing distributed systems.
• Strong command of OOP principles, software architecture, & design patterns.
• Advanced knowledge & hands-on experience with PHP; experience in other backend languages is a plus.
• Proven track record working with microservices & APIs.
• Deep understanding of high-concurrency systems, load balancing, & asynchronous processing.
• Strong experience with databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) & caching strategies.
• Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ.
• Skilled in performance profiling, query optimization, & system diagnostics.
• Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes, & container-based development environments.
• Experience in CI/CD, automated deployments, & infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Excellent debugging & troubleshooting skills in production environments.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Familiarity with real-time data streaming.
• Experience designing APIs consumed by frontend-heavy applications (React, mobile).
• Deep knowledge of security best practices in distributed environments.
• Contributions to open-source backend frameworks, or internal libraries/tools.
• Exposure to monitoring/observability stacks (like Grafana).
• Experience with domain-driven design (DDD) & event-driven architecture.
• Working knowledge of GraphQL.

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