Expert Backend Engineer

Purpose: To serve as a senior technical authority in backend engineering, designing highly scalable and resilient backend solutions and driving technical standards, architecture alignment, and engineering excellence.  Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Design complex backend architectures, services, APIs, and integration patterns across multiple squads.  • Act as senior technical authority for critical backend systems and lead their implementation.  • Define and enforce backend engineering standards, patterns, and development practices.  • Ensure solutions meet scalability, security, resilience, performance, and availability requirements.  • Design for high availability and resilience in payment-critical, always-on services.  • Review complex code, technical designs, and implementation approaches.  • Resolve critical production incidents and drive root-cause remediation.  • Optimize application performance, database interactions, and service communication.  • Align designs with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory requirements.  • Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.  • Mentor backend engineers and raise the technical bar across the chapter.  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption.  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technology roadmaps.