Back End Developer

I am looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a highly technical team working on scalable, high-load backend systems. This is a hands-on role focused on building and optimising distributed services where performance, reliability and scalability are critical.

Key Requirements

• Strong hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka — essential

• Solid understanding of consumer groups, rebalancing, offsets and retries

• Experience handling duplicate message delivery and at-least-once processing

• Knowledge of idempotency, deduplication and retry-safe event processing

• Strong backend development experience with Node.js and TypeScript. Candidates with strong experience in Java, Go, Python, C# or C++ may also be considered.

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices

• Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks

• Strong knowledge of SQL databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, DynamoDB or Redis

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments , preferably AWS/GCP

• Experience working with high-load production systems and participating in on-call/incident management

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend services and features

• Work with distributed, event-driven systems and high-volume data flows

• Improve system performance, reliability and scalability

• Participate in architectural and code reviews

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to continuous technical improvements

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions