Senior Backend Engineer

A globally recognized firm, is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join their Carriers team! The Carriers team is responsible for developing new features, building infrastructure, and maintaining current services. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide leadership and oversight in technical design, systems architecture, and coding for your team and the Engineering team., * Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day.

• Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns from the data model, queuing of jobs, application layering, and container-based software distribution.
• Continue to build out and enhance our CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification.
• Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.
• Architect systems and refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse.
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, and design reviews for new features, products, and systems.
• Collaborate with business teams and provide early input to new product ideas and functionality.
• Define, implement, and monitor operational metrics to ensure performance and quality.
• Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an agile process.
• Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices.
• Exhibit exceptional problem-solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions.

• Python - 5 years
• Django - 5 years
• SQL - 5 years
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud, * 7+ years of experience in software development (Purely backend).
• Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL).
• Experience working with server-side MVC frameworks (e.g., Django, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix).
• Past experience and success building and supporting scalable APIs, services, or applications.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You are adept at communicating relevant information clearly and concisely.
• Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success.
• Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success.
• Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.