Summary
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Take ownership of scalable backend systems and microservices as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will build reliable services with Node.js, design standards-compliant REST APIs with occasional GraphQL, and optimize relational and NoSQL databases for high-throughput workloads. The role offers significant influence over technical architecture while emphasizing clean, reusable, testable, and maintainable code.
Highlights
Senior-level opportunity to design scalable backend architecture, work with modern API and database technologies, make technical architecture decisions, and focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Description
About the Company:
WESTAY | The Luxury Travel Ecosystem! WESTAY is a next-generation luxury travel ecosystem designed for the world’s most discerning travelers, integrating ultra-luxury hospitality, private aviation, yachting, and curated destination experiences into one seamless global platform, redefining how sophisticated travelers discover, plan, and experience the world.
About the role:
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement scalable backend systems and microservices using Node.js aligned with performance and reliability best practices.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring adherence to API standards like OpenAPI, with occasional use of GraphQL.
• Write clean, reusable, and testable backend code with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Design, implement, and optimize both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases; fine tune indexing and queries for high throughput.
• Lead technical architecture decisions, code reviews, and system design sessions with a focus on scalable, modular service architecture (monolith-to-microservice migrations).
• Handle inter-service communication using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems.
• Implement and maintain backend security features including JWT, OAuth2, rate limiting, data masking, and protection against SQLi, XSS, CSRF.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, and DevOps teams in an Agile environment for integration, CI/CD support, and system deployment on AWS/Azure cloud platforms.
• Write unit, integration, and contract tests using tools like Jest, Mocha, or JUnit, and participate in continuous delivery pipelines.
• Maintain backend documentation, including API specs (Swagger/Postman), service runbooks, and architectural diagrams.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing backend systems, APIs, and microservices at scale.
• Proficiency in Node.js and with working knowledge of backend frameworks such as Express.js, Django, or Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of REST and GraphQL API standards; experience with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
• Hands-on experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and performance optimization strategies.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, including legacy system decomposition and cloud-native service deployment.
• Comfortable with dev tools and workflows: Git, Docker, Postman, Swagger.
• Experience deploying services on AWS, Azure, or other major cloud platforms, often in collaboration with DevOps teams.
