What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer position at Andiamo?
We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale the systems that power our products. You’ll work with modern technologies across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms, contributing to solutions that impact millions of users. This role is perfect for an engineer who wants to grow technical depth, learn from senior mentors, and have a direct hand in shaping high-performance, secure, and scalable enterprise software.
What You Will Do
This is an opportunity to work on exciting, modern enterprise technology while growing into a stronger engineer. You’ll contribute to impactful projects, learn from industry leaders, and develop the skills to build systems that scale globally. Your work will directly shape the experiences of millions of users.
About Andiamo
Andiamo is a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Palantir, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and optimize backend services and APIs that power core product functionality.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams on system architecture and design decisions.
- Work on cloud-native services, microservices, and data pipelines that support global scale.
- Write clean, testable, and efficient code with an emphasis on performance and reliability.
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Learn and apply cutting-edge enterprise technologies while developing your craft as an engineer.
- Proficiency in Python, Java, or C
- Exposure to Go, Rust, or Node.js is a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code basics (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
- Building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Exposure to GraphQL or gRPC a plus
- Experience working with microservices and service-to-service communication
- Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with caching and NoSQL systems such as Redis or MongoDB
- Understanding of event streaming platforms (Kafka or Pulsar is a plus)
- Understanding of authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT)
- Basic security practices in backend development
- Monitoring and logging with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
- 5 years of professional backend engineering experience
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and software design
- Experience developing and deploying production systems in a cloud environment
- Collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from senior engineers
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to write clean, maintainable code
This is an opportunity to work on exciting, modern enterprise technology while growing into a stronger engineer. You’ll contribute to impactful projects, learn from industry leaders, and develop the skills to build systems that scale globally. Your work will directly shape the experiences of millions of users.
About Andiamo
Andiamo is a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Palantir, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com