Backend Developer Level III

Role Overview We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on , TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have recent production experience building and operating resilient cloud-native backend systems and be comfortable with scalability, reliability, messaging, observability, failure handling, and production support. Must-Have Qualifications 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience Strong, recent backend development Strong TypeScript development experience Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems Meaningful, recent Microsoft Azure experience Strong REST API development experience Experience with microservices/service-oriented architectures Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts: Scalability High availability Fault tolerance Idempotency Retry strategies Eventual consistency Service-to-service communication Failure recovery Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code Production application troubleshooting and support experience Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability Ability to make engineering decisions within established architecture Strong communication and collaboration skills Requirements Preferred Qualifications Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Service Bus Azure Functions Cosmos DB Helm GitHub Actions OpenTelemetry Dynatrace CI/CD pipeline development Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring High-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms Fulfillment, order processing, logistics, commerce, or similar domains Java experience Infrastructure-as-Code API security Performance engineering Production incident management Site Reliability Engineerin