Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have recent production experience building and operating resilient cloud-native backend systems and be comfortable with scalability, reliability, messaging, observability, failure handling, and production support.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong, recent Node.js backend development
• Strong TypeScript development experience
• Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems
• Meaningful, recent Microsoft Azure experience
• Strong REST API development experience
• Experience with microservices/service-oriented architectures
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
• Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts: Scalability, High availability, Fault tolerance, Idempotency, Retry strategies, Eventual consistency, Service-to-service communication, Failure recovery
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code
• Production application troubleshooting and support experience
• Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability
• Ability to make engineering decisions within established architecture
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Functions
• Cosmos DB
• Helm
• GitHub Actions
• OpenTelemetry
• Dynatrace
• CI/CD pipeline development
• Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
• High-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms
• Fulfillment, order processing, logistics, commerce, or similar domains
• Java experience
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• API security
• Performance engineering
• Production incident management
• Site Reliability Engineering concepts
• Automated integration and contract testing

Core Technologies

Node.js | TypeScript | Microsoft Azure | AKS | Azure Service Bus | Azure Functions | Cosmos DB | REST APIs | Docker | Kubernetes | Helm | GitHub Actions | OpenTelemetry | Dynatrace

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms.
• Develop highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native services.
• Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes.
• Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Build asynchronous and event-driven integrations.
• Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.
• Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and service-level tests.
• Participate in code and technical design reviews.
• Identify and address technical debt.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.
• Take operational ownership of applications after deployment.

Success Profile

The successful candidate will think beyond individual services and understand how backend components behave within a larger distributed ecosystem. They will build systems that are scalable, observable, reliable, resilient, and production-ready, while remaining actively hands-on with software engineering.

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