Backend Developer, Level III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, test, and sustain scalable backend services utilizing Node.js and TypeScript.

• Construct large-scale distributed systems that support enterprise fulfillment platforms.

• Develop cloud-native services that are highly available, resilient, and capable of fault tolerance.

• Design APIs that can manage substantial transaction volumes.

• Make informed technical decisions regarding performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.

• Build integrations that are asynchronous and event-driven.

• Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.

• Establish CI/CD processes utilizing GitHub Actions and Helm.

• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.

• Diagnose complex production issues across services and infrastructure.

• Create automated unit, integration, and service-level tests.

• Engage in code and technical design reviews.

• Identify and address technical debt.

• Mentor engineers and advocate for robust engineering practices.

• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.

• Assume operational ownership of applications post-deployment.

• Support enterprise fulfillment platforms and production-ready distributed ecosystems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Strong recent experience in Node.js backend development.

• Proficient in TypeScript development.

• Experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.

• Relevant and recent experience with Microsoft Azure.

• Strong expertise in REST API development.

• Familiarity with microservices and service-oriented architectures.

• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures.

• Deep understanding of scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, idempotency, retry strategies, eventual consistency, service-to-service communication, and failure recovery.

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested production code.

• Experience in troubleshooting and supporting production applications.

• Comprehensive understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability.

• Ability to make engineering decisions within the framework of established architecture.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• Authorization to work in the United States.

• U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder.

• Comfortable working on W2.

• Preferred: Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Helm, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, CI/CD, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring, enterprise fulfillment/order processing/logistics/commerce domains, Java, Infrastructure-as-Code, API security, performance engineering, production incident management, and Site Reliability Engineering concepts, as well as automated integration and contract testing.

🏝️ Benefits

• W2 employment.

• Hourly pay rate ranging from $55–$60.