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Role OverviewWe 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 , 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 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
Requirements
Preferred
Qualifications
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Service Bus Azure Functions Cosmos DB Helm GitHub Actions OpenTelemetry Dynatrace CI/CD pipeline development Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring High-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms Fulfillment, order processing, logistics, commerce, or similar domains Java experience Infrastructure-as-Code API security Performance engineering Production incident management Site Reliability Engineering concepts Automated integration and contract testing Core Technologies | TypeScript | Microsoft Azure | AKS | Azure Service Bus | Azure Functions | Cosmos DB | REST APIs | Docker | Kubernetes | Helm | GitHub Actions | OpenTelemetry | Dynatrace
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using and TypeScript. Build large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms. Develop highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native services.
Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes. Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed. Build asynchronous and event-driven integrations.
Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS. Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm. Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.
Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure. Develop automated unit, integration, and service-level tests. Participate in code and technical design reviews.
Identify and address technical debt. Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices. Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.
Take operational ownership of applications after deployment. Success ProfileThe successful candidate will think beyond individual services and understand how backend components behave within a larger distributed ecosystem. They will build systems that are scalable, observable, reliable, resilient, and production-ready, while remaining actively hands-on with software engineering.HighlightsLead Backend Engineer | 8 - 10+ yrs | Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture & production support.Originally posted on Himalayas
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