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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems - **Company:** B B K Leather Inc - **Location:** Singapore, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring of Systems, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Microsoft Message Queuing, NoSQL, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, RabbitMQ, Redis, Prometheus, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Datadog, Grafana, Technical Debt, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Low Latency, Code Testing, Cassandra, Enterprise Integration, Apache Kafka, Asynchronous Programming, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** August 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pbyt278shz ## About the Role * Backend engineering: Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating production backend systems. Engineering depth and ownership are valued more than strict years of experience. * Go (Golang): Strong practical experience developing production backend services in Go. * Distributed systems: Experience designing or operating distributed systems, microservices and backend architectures, with an understanding of scalability, latency, resilience, fault tolerance and system trade-offs. * Event-driven architectures: Practical experience working with technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ or similar messaging and event-streaming platforms. * APIs & integrations: Experience designing, building and integrating production APIs and backend services. * Cloud platforms: Strong cloud engineering fundamentals. AWS experience is preferred, although candidates with solid Azure or GCP experience are also encouraged to apply. * Databases: Strong SQL knowledge including schema design, query optimisation and production data management. Experience with NoSQL technologies such as DynamoDB, Cassandra or Redis is advantageous. * Production engineering: Experience operating production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, performance optimisation and continuous reliability improvements. * Architecture & ownership: Demonstrated ability to improve existing systems, influence technical direction and proactively solve engineering problems rather than simply delivering assigned tasks. * Observability: Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog or similar technologies. * TypeScript (nice to have): Exposure to TypeScript or Node.js backend services is useful, particularly when working with existing services. * Communications domain (nice to have): Experience within CPaaS, CCaaS, UCaaS, messaging, voice, telephony or communications platforms would be advantageous. * Location: This role can be based in Bangalore, India (remote), The Netherlands (hybrid), or Europe (remote) supporting globally distributed engineering teams. ## Description * Backend services & APIs: Design, build and evolve robust backend services and APIs that power Toku's cloud communications platform. * Distributed systems: Design and develop scalable distributed systems and microservices, making sound architectural decisions around service boundaries, scalability, reliability, latency, fault tolerance and operational simplicity. * Event-driven platforms: Build and evolve event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ and similar messaging platforms to support high-volume asynchronous communication workflows. * Backend integrations: Develop backend integrations connecting Toku's platform with external communication providers, internal platform services and asynchronous workflows. * Cloud-native engineering: Develop and operate backend services on AWS using modern cloud-native engineering principles. * Architecture & technical leadership: Contribute to technical direction, challenge existing designs, improve architecture and help evolve backend systems toward simpler, more scalable and maintainable solutions. * Production ownership: Own backend systems in production, including monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, reliability improvements, incident investigation and continuous operational improvement. * Platform evolution: Contribute to the ongoing modernisation of backend services, including increased adoption of Go, event-driven architecture and scalable distributed systems. * Data & persistence: Design and optimise SQL-based data models, ensuring performance, correctness and scalability. Exposure to NoSQL technologies is advantageous. * Engineering quality: Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code, and participate actively in design discussions, code reviews and technical decision-making. * Ownership & initiative: Proactively identify technical debt, recurring engineering problems and opportunities for improvement, driving solutions through to completion while collaborating across multiple engineering squads., We'd love to hear from you if you have ## Related Videos - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [How Much Does a Software Engineer Make? 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