Senior Backend Engineer (Remote: Europe)

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Job Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services, APIs, and data flows that meet product and business requirements.
• Optimize and maintain system performance, reliability, and availability through profiling, tuning, and refactoring critical components and participating in the feature design reviews.
• Guide engineers through design decisions, code reviews, and best practices to ensure technical excellence and consistency across the team.
• Collaborate with product, design, frontend teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and deliver high-quality features.
• Identify and resolve complex production issues by debugging, analyzing logs, and implementing long-term fixes with strong root-cause analysis.
• Contribute and uphold engineering standards, documentation, testing strategies, and automation to maintain a robust and maintainable codebase.
• Drive and participate in architecture discussions, technical planning, and continuous improvement initiatives across the squad.
• Contribute in on-call rotations and guide first level on-call engineers during incidents.

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, .
• Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Solid knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL, ElasticSearch, ClickHouse), query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience with performance tuning, caching strategies, and scalability best practices.br>Strong debugging skills and ability to analyze logs, metrics, traces, and production incidents.br>Familiarity with CI/CD, testing frameworks, automation, and clean code principles.

Tools & Technologies:

• Cloud platforms mainly AWS.
• Containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry,NewRelic, or similar.
• Messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, or equivalents.
• Version control using Git and GitHub/GitLab workflows.
• API frameworks, REST/GraphQL, gRPC, and service-to-service authentication.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Clear and concise communication across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to mentor others, give constructive feedback, and support teammates growth.
• Problem-solving attitude with calmness under pressure during incidents or priority shifts.
• Collaboration-focused, with a willingness to align, negotiate, and build consensus.