Job Summary
We are seeking a talented and experienced Mid-Level Backend Developer with 3-4 years of professional experience to join our growing engineering team. You will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, robust, and high-performance backend systems and APIs that power our critical applications and services. This role requires a strong problem-solver who can contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment, leveraging modern technologies and cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy efficient and scalable backend services and APIs using C# .NET (including .NET Core) and Node.js.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain robust database schemas, write optimized SQL queries for both SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and ensure data integrity and performance.
- Implement and manage application deployments using Docker containerization, ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments.
- Work with AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS) to build, deploy, and manage highly available and fault-tolerant applications.
- Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of backend systems.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes, tools, and infrastructure.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, applying them where appropriate to enhance our solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3-4 years of professional experience as a Backend Developer or similar role.
- Proficiency in C# .NET (including .NET Core) for building robust, scalable, and secure APIs and microservices.
- Strong command of Node.js for developing high-performance, event-driven applications.
- Solid experience with relational databases, specifically SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including database design, optimization, stored procedures, and complex SQL queries.
- Hands-on experience with Docker for containerizing applications, managing images, and orchestrating containers.
- Practical experience with AWS cloud services, including but not limited to:
- Compute: EC2, Lambda
- Storage: S3, RDS (for SQL Server/PostgreSQL)
- Networking: VPC, API Gateway
- Messaging: SQS, SNS
- Monitoring: CloudWatch
- Experience with RESTful API design and development.
- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with other cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud).
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS Code Pipeline is a plus.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture patterns.
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and mocking frameworks.
- Understanding of security best practices in web development.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) is highly desirable.