Backend Engineer - System Design

As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems for large-scale products. You will own the end-to-end backend architecture, making design decisions, optimizing performance, and ensuring system reliability. Additionally, you will build and manage microservices-based architectures with clear service boundaries and scalability considerations. Implementing event-driven systems using messaging/streaming platforms such as Kafka will be a key part of your role. Your responsibilities will also include designing for high availability, redundancy, graceful degradation, and robust error handling. Ensuring that backend systems support real-time or near real-time data processing at scale will be essential. It will be your responsibility to define and enforce strong testing practices, review code for quality, performance, security, and maintainability, and collaborate closely with product managers, frontend teams, and DevOps to deliver high-impact features. Taking ownership of production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis, and driving best practices around architecture, coding standards, and system design will also be part of your role. Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems for large-scale products. - Own end-to-end backend architecture, including design decisions, performance optimization, and system reliability. - Build and manage microservices-based architectures with clear service boundaries and scalability considerations. - Implement event-driven systems using messaging/streaming platforms such as Kafka. - Design for high availability, redundancy, graceful degradation, and robust error handling. - Ensure backend systems support real-time or near real-time data processing at scale. - Define and enforce strong testing practices, including unit, integration, contract, and load testing. - Review code for quality, performance, security, and maintainability. - Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend teams, and DevOps to deliver high-impact features. - Take ownership of production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis. - Drive best practices around architecture, coding standards, and system design. Qualification Required: - 3-5 years of backend development experience, primarily in product-based companies. - Proven experience working on complex backend architectures at scale. - Strong expertise in: 1. Microservices architecture 2. Event-driven systems (Kafka or similar) 3. Distributed systems design - Hands-on experience building systems with: 1. High throughput and low latency requirements 2. Redundancy, failover, and error-handling strategies 3. Real-time or streaming data workflows - Strong backend programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js. - Deep understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling for scale. - Solid experience with API design (REST/gRPC) and versioning strategies. - Demonstrated testing discipline, including test strategy ownership and validation of test coverage. - Experience with production-grade monitoring, logging, and alerting. In addition, the company values problem-solvers who thrive in complexity, builders who think beyond code and understand systems, leaders who elevate the team, not just individual output, and individuals with a product mindset focused on reliability, scalability, and user impact. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems for large-scale products. You will own the end-to-end backend architecture, making design decisions, optimizing performance, and ensuring system reliability. Additionally, you will build and manage microservices-based architectures with clear service boundaries and scalability considerations. Implementing event-driven systems using messaging/streaming platforms such as Kafka will be a key part of your role. Your responsibilities will also include designing for high availability, redundancy, graceful degradation, and robust error handling. Ensuring that backend systems support real-time or near real-time data processing at scale will be essential. It will be your responsibility to define and enforce strong testing practices, review code for quality, performance, security, and maintainability, and collaborate closely with product managers, frontend teams, and DevOps to deliver high-impact features. Taking ownership of production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis, and driving best practices around architecture, coding standards, and system design will also be part of your role. Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems for large-scale products. - Own end-to-end b