Backend Engineer

Key Role & Responsibility: Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs that power the platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and security: Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure backend services, APIs, and integration components. Design and implement scalable microservices and distributed systems. Integrate with upstream and downstream systems, devices, and data sources. Manage and optimise relational and non-relational databases, including schema design, query optimisation, and data integrity. Develop data processing, transformation, and analytics services. Implement application monitoring, logging, and observability features to support system reliability and operational troubleshooting. Troubleshoot and resolve application and integration issues to ensure service reliability and performance. Work closely with frontend engineers, data teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions. Implement authentication, authorisation, and other security best practices in backend systems. Support testing, deployment, and production operations activities. Write clean, well-documented, and testable code, and participate in peer code reviews. Maintain technical documentation and system design artefacts. Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Collaborate effectively with team members to deliver solutions and support knowledge sharing across the project team. Experience & Skills Needed Experience in backend software development and building enterprise-grade applications. Strong programming proficiency in at least one of: Python Node.js Java Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices, and backend integration services. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including query optimisation, and data integrity management. Experience working with message queues, event-driven architectures, and system integration. Knowledge of software design patterns, enterprise application architecture, and secure coding practices. Experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS. Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile software development practices. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.