Backend Developer Level III

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