Senior Backend Engineer

About This Role

Shuru Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build greenfield products from scratch, own design and architecture decisions, and mentor teammates. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to create secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the full lifecycle of backend development including system design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Build products from scratch and scale them as usage grows.
• Design robust APIs, database models, microservices, and event-driven workflows.
• Makes architecture decisions balancing performance, scalability, consistency, security, and maintainability.
• Develop distributed systems with fault tolerance and reliable communication.
• Enhance monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting capabilities.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure management.
• Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and technical guidance.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Solid command of engineering fundamentals with a willingness to work with Java/Golang (prior experience not mandatory).
• Mastery of design patterns, architectural principles, and system design concepts.
• Hands-on expertise in databases, data modeling, query optimization, and API development.
• Proven track record with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, scalability, failure handling, and application security.
• Familiarity with DevOps basics including CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS.