Lead Backend Developer
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Backend Lead Developer for a personalization engineering team at Serverless Guru. Designing backend architecture and building cloud-native APIs for large enterprise hospitality platform.
Responsibilities:
- Lead backend architecture and technical design for personalization platform services.
- Design and build cloud-native backend APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway.
- Work on complex serverless workflows using AWS Step Functions and related AWS services.
- Build and maintain services that support personalized experiences, eligibility rules, recommendations, and workflow-driven platform capabilities.
- Help migrate, modernize, and improve backend services in the cloud.
- Work with databases and search systems such as DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB-style databases, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch.
- Define backend patterns, engineering standards, and reusable approaches for the team.
- Review designs and code with a focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, QA, and other engineering teams.
- Improve observability, debugging, reliability, and operational quality of backend services.
- Mentor engineers technically and help the team make better architectural decisions.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Deep understanding of Node.js backend development, including async execution, event loop behavior, API performance, error handling, and production debugging.
- Strong experience building APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
- Strong experience with AWS serverless architecture.
- Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar workflow orchestration systems.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with Serverless Framework or similar deployment frameworks.
- Strong understanding of NoSQL databases, especially DynamoDB or similar systems.
- Good understanding of database design, indexing, query patterns, and performance tradeoffs.
- Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DocumentDB, or MongoDB-style systems is a strong plus.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: retries, idempotency, partial failure, timeouts, consistency, scaling, and observability.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives from concept through delivery.
Benefits:
- No specified benefits mentioned.
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