We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of our web applications. You will collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable and efficient solutions that drive our platform's success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and Maintain Backend Systems: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable server-side logic, APIs, databases, and microservices to support the company's web and mobile applications.
• Database Management: Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and storage systems (SQL or NoSQL), ensuring data integrity, security, and high performance.
• API Development: Build, maintain, and document RESTful or GraphQL APIs to enable seamless integration between front-end applications, third-party services, and backend infrastructure.
• Code Quality and Optimization: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while performing regular code reviews to ensure high-quality standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, designers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure smooth product delivery.
• Performance and Scalability: Optimize the performance of backend services and databases to handle increasing traffic and data loads, ensuring the application can scale as needed.
• Security: Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, protect sensitive data, and ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., OWASP).
• Troubleshooting: Debug and troubleshoot production issues, identifying bottlenecks and bugs, and devising long-term solutions.

Requirements:

• Experience: Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role, with strong expertise in server-side languages like Node.js, Python, Java, Ruby, or Go.
• API Development: Proficiency in developing and consuming RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Databases: Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deploying, scaling, and managing applications.
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git or other version control systems.
• Security Best Practices: Understanding of web security and how to protect against common vulnerabilities.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Team Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CI/CD: Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Microservices: Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Testing: Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test automation frameworks.