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 Engineering concepts

Automated integration and contract testing

Core Technologies | TypeScript | Microsoft Azure | AKS | Azure Service Bus | Azure Functions | Cosmos DB | REST APIs | Docker | Kubernetes | Helm | GitHub Actions | OpenTelemetry | Dynatrace

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using and TypeScript.

Build large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms.

Develop highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native services.

Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes.

Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.

Build asynchronous and event-driven integrations.

Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.

Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm.

Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.

Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure.

Develop automated unit, integration, and service-level tests.

Participate in code and technical design reviews.

Identify and address technical debt.

Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.

Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.

Take operational ownership of applications after deployment.

Success ProfileThe successful candidate will think beyond individual services and understand how backend components behave within a larger distributed ecosystem. They will build systems that are scalable, observable, reliable, resilient, and production-ready, while remaining actively hands-on with software engineering.

HighlightsLead Backend Engineer | 8–10+ yrs | Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture & production support.

Originally posted on Himalayas