Backend Developer Level III

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💰 USD 55 - 60 / hourly

📅 Posted 2026-08-24 · via Himalayas

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Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on , TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will have recent production experience building and operating resilient cloud-native backend systems and be comfortable with scalability, reliability, messaging, observability, failure handling, and production support.
Must-Have Qualifications

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8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience

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Strong, recent backend development

- Strong TypeScript development experience

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Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems

- Meaningful, recent Microsoft Azure experience

- Strong REST API development experience

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Experience with microservices/service-oriented architectures

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Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures

Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts:

- Scalability

- High availability

- Fault tolerance

- Idempotency

- Retry strategies

- Eventual consistency

- Service-to-service communication

- Failure recovery

- Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience

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Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code

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Production application troubleshooting and support experience

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Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability

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Ability to make engineering decisions within established architecture

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Requirements
Preferred Qualifications

- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

- Azure Service Bus

- Azure Functions

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Cosmos DB

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Helm

- GitHub Actions

- OpenTelemetry

- Dynatrace

- CI/CD pipeline development

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Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring

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High-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms

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Fulfillment, order processing, logistics, commerce, or similar domains

- Java experience

- Infrastructure-as-Code

- API security

- Performance engineering

- Production incident management

- Site Reliability Engineering concepts

- Automated integration and contract testing

Core Technologies

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Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using and TypeScript.

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Build large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms.

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Develop highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native services.

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Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes.

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Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.

- Build asynchronous and event-driven integrations.

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Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.

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Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm.

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Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.

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Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure.

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Develop automated unit, integration, and service-level tests.

- Participate in code and technical design reviews.

- Identify and address technical debt.

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Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.

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Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.

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Take operational ownership of applications after deployment.

Success Profile

The successful candidate will think beyond individual services and understand how backend components behave within a larger distributed ecosystem. They will build systems that are scalable, observable, reliable, resilient, and production-ready, while remaining actively hands-on with software engineering.
Highlights

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