Job Description
In this role, you will be directly responsible for:
• AI-Native Velocity: Own the 70% AI-assisted PR mandate by effectively using Cursor, Copilot, and Claude to speed up the delivery of Node.js (NestJS) and Golang microservices—while ensuring human intelligence remains focused on high-level system design and architecture decisions.
• Unbreakable Backend Architecture: Design high-throughput, event-driven microservices with Kafka and Redis, and implement resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, health checks, and fallback mechanisms to withstand massive traffic spikes without manual intervention.
• Data & Performance Ownership: Take responsibility for the data layer’s “unit economics”—optimize MySQL and MongoDB queries, create efficient schemas, and deliver sub-second p99 latencies with predictable infrastructure costs on GCP.
• End-to-End Golden Path Ownership: Drive features from design documentation through Kubernetes deployment, ensuring high reliability through disciplined engineering practices and maintaining low change failure rates with minimal Sev-1 incidents.
• API & Service Design Excellence: Create clean, versioned, and backward-compatible APIs and modular microservices, with a strong emphasis on maintainability, scalability, and well-defined service contracts.
• Cloud-Native Operations & Observability: Build and operate services on Kubernetes with dependable logging, monitoring, and alerting; proactively diagnose production issues and ensure high availability.
• Scalability & Cost Efficiency: Continuously improve system throughput, fault tolerance, and infrastructure utilization to support rapid growth while maintaining tight control of cloud costs.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Lead key design decisions, write clear RFCs, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Core Engineering Excellence: Demonstrate strong foundations in distributed systems, concurrency, and data structures, paired with excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
TECH STACK
• Languages & Frameworks: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang
• Data & Messaging: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Aerospike, ElasticSearch
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP / AWS, Docker
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• AI Productivity: Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot
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