Senior Backend Engineer

2 weeks ago

Cairo, Cairo, Egypt 99brightminds Full time $84,000 - $168,000 per year

Role Summary:

We are looking for a
Senior Backend Engineer
comfortable with the complexity of a
micro-service architecture
. You will construct the core, highly scalable foundation of our company, valuing
reliability, fault tolerance, and performance
.

This role requires a forward-thinking outlook and the ability to balance strategic planning with the agility and scrappiness needed for present needs,
without sacrificing code quality
. You will drive product initiatives by continuously learning new technologies and systems.

Key Technologies (Primary Stack):

  • Golang
    and
    Python
  • Micro-services

and
Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes/Docker
- GCP
(Google Cloud Platform)

Core
Responsibilities:

  • API Ownership:
    Be a key stakeholder for all internal and external API services across various features.
  • Design & Architecture:
    Participate in and contribute to the technical design process, defining code architecture for a high-performance, scalable product with a minimal footprint.
  • Implementation:
    Implement robust web services, business logic, and APIs primarily using Golang
  • Quality & Standards:
    Drive and elevate engineering standards, tooling, and process improvements across the team.
  • Data-Driven Development:
    Experiment, prototype, measure, and leverage data-driven analysis to inform all development decisions.
  • Stakeholder Management:
    Effectively own end-to-end initiatives, ensuring clear communication with all stakeholders (Product, QA, Front-End, Infrastructure, etc.) to deliver maximum business value.
  • Documentation:
    Own and maintain comprehensive documentation for all externally facing APIs.

What Makes You a Good Fit:

  • Experience: 4+ years
    of professional experience in backend development, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Backend Mastery:
    Deep passion for well-structured backend services and a proven track record working with
    distributed/scalable infrastructure
    in a micro-services-first design.
  • Environment:
    Extremely comfortable working in
    multi-threaded applications
    and within
    *nix based execution environments.
  • Quality First:
    Value code quality, testability, and an iterative development methodology.
  • Cloud Fluency:
    Familiarity with cloud environments (preferably GCP),
    infrastructure as code
    , and provisioning for the code you write.
  • Performance:
    A deep appreciation for
    resource frugality
    and application performance.
  • Confidence Building:
    You demonstrate and incrementally build confidence in all the pieces you develop through robust testing and clear communication.

Desired (Pluses):

  • Proven experience with
    Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD systems
    .
  • Experience with
    GCP
    deployments and pipeline management.
  • Knowledge of
    Typescript/Javascript
    (for polyglot systems).
  • Experience with message queues like
    NATS
    .
  • Knowledge of multiple communication protocols, ideally
    gRPC
    (and REST, WebSockets).
  • Strong understanding of security principles (JWTs, salting, RSA, etc.).
  • A deep sense of appreciation for
    Test-Driven Development (TDD)
    methodology.

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