What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer position at Scale.jobs?
About The Role
The role focuses on building and scaling the core services that power high-traffic user applications, ensuring high availability, low latency, and strict data consistency. The work involves designing distributed systems that handle complex business logic while maintaining a clean, modular architecture.
The team operates in a fast-paced environment where backend performance directly impacts the end-user experience. This position requires a deep understanding of service-oriented architecture, database optimization, and the trade-offs involved in scaling cloud-native infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
The role focuses on building and scaling the core services that power high-traffic user applications, ensuring high availability, low latency, and strict data consistency. The work involves designing distributed systems that handle complex business logic while maintaining a clean, modular architecture.
The team operates in a fast-paced environment where backend performance directly impacts the end-user experience. This position requires a deep understanding of service-oriented architecture, database optimization, and the trade-offs involved in scaling cloud-native infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust, scalable APIs and microservices using Go, Java, or Python to support web and mobile clients.
- Optimize database performance and schema design across PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL stores to handle high-concurrency workloads.
- Build and maintain asynchronous task processing systems and message queues using technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Redis.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Jaeger to ensure system health.
- Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers to define API contracts and technical specifications for new product features.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and contribute to architectural discussions to maintain high engineering standards and system reliability.
- 3–7 years of professional experience in backend software engineering, specifically building and scaling production-grade web services.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Java, Python, or Ruby, with a deep understanding of its ecosystem.
- Demonstrated experience with relational databases and SQL optimization in a high-load environment.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems design.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Bonus: Experience with gRPC, GraphQL, or managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.