DXS - Direct Expansion Solutions

Backend Engineer

• Define and own the cloud-native platform architecture to support multiple SaaS products.
• Develop patterns for multi-product, multi-tenant deployment models.
• Build scaling strategies to ensure resiliency, high availability, and performance.
• Establish long-term standards for security, upgrades, lifecycle management, and governance in a containerized environment.
• Define and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies, leveraging Atlassian Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Jira where applicable.
• Collaborate with DevOps to manage application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and upgrades.
• Establish best practices for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Ensure observability and monitoring frameworks (metrics, logging, tracing) are in place for proactive management.
• Drive automation of infrastructure and platform provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Partner with product teams to ensure platform services align with business and customer needs.
• Support product delivery teams by providing standardized platform services and tooling.
• Directly contribute to customer success and faster product delivery by ensuring platform reliability and efficiency.
• Serve as subject-matter expert for the SaaS platform and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with product teams, security, and operations to ensure platform alignment with business objectives.
• Apply critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to challenge assumptions and refine strategies.

Platform Architect