Backend Developer Level III
Job Description
Role Overview
We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on , TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed systems.
The ideal candidate will have recent production experience building and operating resilient cloud-native backend systems and be comfortable with scalability, reliability, messaging, observability, failure handling, and production support.
Must-Have
Qualifications
• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong, recent backend development
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Strong TypeScript development experience
• Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems
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Meaningful, recent Microsoft Azure experience
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Strong REST API development experience
• Experience with microservices/service-oriented architectures
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
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- Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts:
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Scalability
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High availability
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Fault tolerance
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Idempotency
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Retry strategies
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Eventual consistency
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Service-to-service communication
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Failure recovery
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Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code
• Production application troubleshooting and support experience
• Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability
• Ability to make engineering decisions within established architecture
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Strong communication and collaboration skills
Requirements
Preferred
Qualifications
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Azure Service Bus
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Azure Functions
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Cosmos DB
• Helm
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GitHub Actions
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OpenTelemetry
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Dynatrace
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CI/CD pipeline development
• Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
• High-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms
• Fulfillment, order processing, logistics, commerce, or similar domains
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Java experience
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Infrastructure-as-Code
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API security
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Performance engineering
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Production incident management
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Site Reliability Engineering concepts
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Automated integration and contract testing
Core Technologies
| TypeScript | Microsoft Azure | AKS | Azure Service Bus | Azure Functions | Cosmos DB | REST APIs | Docker | Kubernetes | Helm | GitHub Actions | OpenTelemetry | Dynatrace
Key
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using and TypeScript.
• Build large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms.
• Develop highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native services.
• Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes.
• Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
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Build asynchronous and event-driven integrations.
• Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.
• Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and service-level tests.
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Participate in code and technical design reviews.
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Identify and address technical debt.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.
• Take operational ownership of applications after deployment.
Success Profile
The successful candidate will think beyond individual services and understand how backend components behave within a larger distributed ecosystem. They will build systems that are scalable, observable, reliable, resilient, and production-ready, while remaining actively hands-on with software engineering.
Highlights
Lead Backend Engineer | 8–10+ yrs | Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture & production support.
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