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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining backend services and APIs, with a strong focus on asynchronous and distributed processing. Proficient in using TypeScript and Node.js, with a solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and modern development practices.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Service DevelopmentAPI Design and IntegrationAsynchronous ProcessingCloud-Native InfrastructureUnit and Integration Testing
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Hard Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsBackend ServicesAPIsAsynchronous SystemsDistributed ProcessingDurable PersistenceService IntegrationsDeployment AutomationEvent-Driven Systems
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationOwnership MindsetRealistic Estimation
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesContainersOperational ToolsMetricsLogging
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Engineering
Industry Keywords
Cloud PlatformProduction SoftwareService-to-Service CommunicationJob SubmissionExecution Tracking
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and deliver backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries for cloud platform capabilities
- Build systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility
- Develop reliable asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, and durable state
- Work on distributed execution flows, service-to-service communication, routing, acknowledgements, and failure recovery
- Build and maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and related tooling
- Integrate platform services with persistence layers, event streams, REST APIs, and internal service contracts
- Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up
- Participate in code reviews and apply feedback to improve work quality
- Collaborate with platform, product, security, quality, and application teams
- Use AI and modern development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
- Trace jobs or tasks across supported services and ship focused improvements with clear tests
- Own production features and services and help onboard and mentor newer engineers
Requirements
What you’ll need- 2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production software, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building backend services, APIs, or background workers
- Ability to write modular, readable, and performant code independently, preferably using TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience owning feature-level work with moderate ambiguity
- Basic design of small-to-medium systems or APIs
- Understanding of asynchronous and distributed processing concepts, including task dependencies, state transitions, retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, and timeouts
- Experience with durable persistence, service integrations, and modern development and deployment practices
- Ability to investigate issues using logs, metrics, and operational tools
- Experience writing effective unit and integration tests
- Basic quality, reliability, and security practices
- Clear communication, realistic estimation, and ownership mindset
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to comply with U.S. export controls
Benefits
Comp & perks- Bonus or commission eligibility
- Medical benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Financial benefits
- Wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Employee discounts
- Growth support through all career stages
