Backend Engineer

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems.
• Develop clean, maintainable, and high-performance production code with readability and long-term ownership in mind.
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third-party services.
• Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads.
• Drive architectural decisions with scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence in mind.
• Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning.
• Ensure services are production-ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability best practices.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and production support.
• Continuously improve system reliability, developer experience, and engineering standards across the team.

Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout

• Guide customers through the deployment of their platform: Assist customers in the design, implementation, and configuration of their platform based on their needs.
• Manage customers infrastructure issues: Diagnose, resolve, and anticipate technical issues related to the infrastructure.
• Conduct platform health checks: Perform on-demand audits to assess the performance and resilience of platforms and recommend improvements.
• Ensure technical documentation of the architecture: Write and update architecture-related documentation, ensuring it is clear and accessible to all stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other teams: Work closely with the Product team to integrate architectural needs into the products, and with Solution Engineers to support pre-sales efforts in resolving platform issues and addressing design requests.

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