About the Role
The role involves building and optimizing core backend services, ensuring system stability, and contributing to the evolution of a real-time communication platform through robust software design and efficient data handling.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable server-side applications
- Develop and maintain APIs for frontend and third-party integrations
- Optimize backend performance and response times
- Collaborate with frontend developers to define data contracts
- Ensure data consistency and integrity across services
- Write clean, testable, and well-documented code
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues promptly
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality
- Integrate with databases and caching systems
- Monitor system health and implement alerting mechanisms
- Support deployment pipelines and CI/CD workflows
- Contribute to architectural decisions and system design
- Enhance security practices within backend components
- Work with asynchronous processing and message queues
- Maintain documentation for services and interfaces
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies when beneficial
- Ensure compliance with data protection standards
- Scale infrastructure to meet growing user demand
- Collaborate with product teams to refine technical requirements
- Improve system resilience and fault tolerance
Nice to Have
- Experience with real-time communication systems
- Background in chatbot or conversational AI platforms
- Knowledge of GraphQL
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Experience with serverless architectures
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Understanding of distributed systems challenges
Compensation
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Remote-friendly with flexible hours
Team
Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable backend systems
Tech Stack
- Primary language: JavaScript/Node.js
- Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- APIs: REST, GraphQL
- Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus
Growth Opportunities
- Work on large-scale systems used globally
- Opportunity to lead technical initiatives
- Access to learning resources and conferences
Available for qualified candidates
