Lead Backend Developer

🕒 June 18

🌐 United States, Mexico, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Serverless Guru

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

Cloud Computing • Consulting • SaaS

Serverless Guru is a specialized consulting firm focused on cloud transformation and serverless architecture. They offer a range of services including consulting, development, and training to help organizations adopt and optimize their cloud strategies. With a global team of experts, Serverless Guru is dedicated to supporting businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, in achieving faster project delivery and cost savings through tailored cloud solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead backend architecture and technical design for personalization platform services. • Design and build cloud-native backend APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway. • Work on complex serverless workflows using AWS Step Functions and related AWS services. • Build and maintain services that support personalized experiences, eligibility rules, recommendations, and workflow-driven platform capabilities. • Help migrate, modernize, and improve backend services in the cloud. • Work with databases and search systems such as DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB-style databases, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch. • Define backend patterns, engineering standards, and reusable approaches for the team. • Review designs and code with a focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness. • Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, QA, and other engineering teams. • Improve observability, debugging, reliability, and operational quality of backend services. • Mentor engineers technically and help the team make better architectural decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience. • Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js. • Deep understanding of Node.js backend development, including async execution, event loop behavior, API performance, error handling, and production debugging. • Strong experience building APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. • Strong experience with AWS serverless architecture. • Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar workflow orchestration systems. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform. • Experience with Serverless Framework or similar deployment frameworks. • Strong understanding of NoSQL databases, especially DynamoDB or similar systems. • Good understanding of database design, indexing, query patterns, and performance tradeoffs. • Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DocumentDB, or MongoDB-style systems is a strong plus. • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: retries, idempotency, partial failure, timeouts, consistency, scaling, and observability. • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives from concept through delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• No specified benefits mentioned.