Backend Architect
Qualis1 Inc
Denver, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
Denver, United States of America
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Amazon DynamoDB
Node.js
Performance Tuning
TypeScript
Grafana
Backend
Event Driven Architecture
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Kafka
Microservices
Requirements
We are seeking a hands-on Backend Technical Architect with strong experience in system design, technical leadership, and delivery of scalable distributed systems. This role involves owning end-to-end architecture, driving technical decisions, and ensuring system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- The ideal candidate has 12+ years of experience (3+ in architecture) with deep expertise in Node.js/TypeScript, AWS, Kafka, and microservices architecture.
- Strong experience in performance optimization, DynamoDB, event-driven systems, and resilience patterns is required.
- You will lead architecture design, mentor teams, define best practices, provide effort estimates, and resolve complex production issues.
- Familiarity with observability tools, CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure as code is preferred