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