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# TELECOMMUTE Lead Backend Developer / Remote EST/CST No PST or MST

- **Company:** Fedrus Global Llc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Github, Node.Js, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Azure Service Bus, Spring Cloud, System Availability, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Production Code, Cosmos DB, Azure AKS, Restful APIs, Dynatrace, Serverless Computing, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ff35d383-3d0d-4e7e-a397-9ffeea2b6ff2

## About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale the large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a highly hands-on engineering role for an experienced backend developer who enjoys solving complex distributed-systems problems, building resilient cloud-native applications, and taking ownership of systems operating at enterprise scale.

This is a Node.js-first environment. Candidates must have substantial, recent, production-level experience developing backend systems with Node.js and TypeScript. Java experience is valuable, but Java-heavy backgrounds without meaningful Node.js experience will not be sufficient for this role., * 8-10+ years of professional software engineering experience

 * Strong and recent Node.js backend development experience
 * Strong TypeScript development experience
 * Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems
 * Meaningful, recent hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
 * Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs
 * Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
 * Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
 * Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including:
 + Scalability
 + High availability
 + Fault tolerance
 + Idempotency
 + Retry strategies
 + Eventual consistency
 + Service-to-service communication
 + Failure recovery
 * Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
 * Experience developing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code
 * Experience supporting and troubleshooting production applications
 * Strong understanding of application reliability, resilience, and observability
 * Ability to make sound engineering decisions within an established architecture
 * Ability to operate effectively when requirements are incomplete or ambiguous
 * Strong communication skills across engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders

Strongly Preferred

 * Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
 * Azure Service Bus
 * Azure Functions
 * Cosmos DB
 * Helm
 * GitHub Actions
 * OpenTelemetry
 * Dynatrace
 * CI/CD pipeline development
 * Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
 * Experience with high-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms
 * Experience with fulfillment, order-processing, logistics, commerce, or similar distributed backend platforms



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