Senior Backend Engineer Bosta

About the Role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be engaged in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems. You will play a key role in the architecture and implementation of our applications, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability.
Here's what you'll be doing at Bosta.
• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members via technical design sessions.
• Collaborate with the front-end engineers in building, and shipping scalable APIs to be consumed by our client-facing solutions.
• Build and maintain third-party API integrations, fetching, and processing of data.
• Work with the product and design teams to discuss the requirements of the value teams (including business, marketing, sales, and logistics operations), understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate them into usable and scalable features.
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice). Mentor and empower other engineers around you.
• Develop and maintain high-performance and scalable backend systems that can handle high traffic volumes, while ensuring data integrity, security, and reliability.
• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of backend systems, and implement appropriate measures to ensure optimal system uptime and availability.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including non-technical team members, to ensure that they understand the technical decisions being made and how they will impact the product.
• Drive innovation and contribute to the growth of our company vision by creating new products and collaborating closely with the product and design teams.
Who you are!
• 3-5 years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
• A bachelor s degree in computer science or related fields is preferred.
• Excellent programming skills in JavaScript, Node.js , Express framework, and related technologies.
• Experience managing NoSQL databases/search engines such as Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Experience building and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with A/B testing and canary deployments.
• Knowledge of GCP, AWS, or other similar cloud providers.
• Knowledge of container technology (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated expertise in managing a broad system with multiple integrated components.
• Ability to jump into legacy code and understand it quickly.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent leadership skills.