We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with deep expertise in Node.js, AWS cloud services, and distributed systems. This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native applications while leveraging modern AWS infrastructure, containerized environments, and AI-powered solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience developing backend services, designing distributed architectures, implementing cloud-native patterns, and supporting mission-critical production systems.

Key Responsibilities

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  Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
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  Architect and build secure, cloud-native applications on AWS.
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  Develop and maintain REST APIs and service contracts across distributed environments.
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  Design resilient distributed systems that support scalability, fault tolerance, and observability.
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  Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
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  Build and support containerized and serverless workloads.
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  Leverage AWS Bedrock and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions within modern application architectures.
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  Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and performance.
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  Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability best practices.
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  Apply cloud security standards and infrastructure automation practices.

Required Qualifications

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  8+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer working with distributed, high-performance systems.
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  Strong JavaScript and TypeScript development experience.
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  Hands-on Node.js backend development experience.
• Strong AWS experience, including ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CloudFront, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Load Balancers, SQS, and SNS.

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  Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly:
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    AWS CodeBuild
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    CircleCI
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  Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and RAG-based solutions.
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  Experience building scalable, secure, cloud-native applications.
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  Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as:
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    Terraform
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    CloudFormation
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    CDK
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  Experience designing cloud-native distributed architectures with:
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    Scalability
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    Resiliency
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    Observability
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    Fault tolerance
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  Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including:
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    Retries
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    Idempotency
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    Circuit breakers
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    Eventual consistency
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    Backpressure
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    Asynchronous processing
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  Experience designing and maintaining scalable REST APIs and service contracts.
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  Experience with observability and monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.
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  Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including:
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    IAM least privilege
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    Secrets management
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    Encryption
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    Network isolation
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    Secure service-to-service communication
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    Security groups
    
    

Preferred Qualifications

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  AWS Developer Certification and/or AWS Solutions Architect Certification.
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  Experience with additional AWS services and tooling.
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  Experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production environments, including:
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    Scaling
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    Deployments
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    Networking
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    Troubleshooting
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  Experience automating workflows or data pipelines using AI orchestration.
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  Experience optimizing high-throughput APIs and low-latency services.
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  Experience with AI orchestration frameworks or agentic workflows.
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  Experience with GraphQL or gRPC APIs.
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  Experience working with both containerized and serverless architectures.
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  Experience supporting high-availability production systems.