Summary
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A senior backend engineering opportunity for someone who can own the architecture and long-term evolution of critical backend and authorization services. You will drive scalability, reliability, security, performance, code quality, automated testing, and robust engineering practices.
Highlights
High-ownership backend role focused on architecture, scalability, security, performance, code quality, and engineering excellence, with responsibility for critical services and authorization systems.
Description
Key Responsibilities
System Design and Ownership: Lead the design, implementation, and long-term maintenance of critical backend services or our authorization systems, making sound architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and security.
Performance and Scalability: Drive performance optimization efforts across the stack, proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to support high throughput, low latency, and predictable system behavior under load.
Security Leadership: Champion security best practices by design, including least-privilege principles, defense-in-depth strategies, and secure coding standards, ensuring our authorization services meet high security and compliance requirements.
Code Quality and Engineering Excellence: Set a high bar for code quality through thoughtful design, thorough reviews, and comprehensive automated testing, improving the maintainability, reliability, and robustness of the codebase.
Troubleshooting and Reliability: Lead complex debugging and incident resolution efforts, develop tools and processes to improve observability, and contribute to the overall reliability and availability of our systems.
Collaboration and Technical Leadership: Collaborate closely with engineers, security specialists, product partners, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, mentor junior engineers, and influence the team’s technical direction and best practices.
Qualifications：
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with 4+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling production backend systems.
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, C++ or similar.
Proven experience writing comprehensive automated tests, performing effective code reviews, and debugging complex production issues to ensure high standards of code quality and reliability.
Preferred Qualifications：
Solid experience designing backend systems, including RESTful APIs, microservices or service-oriented architectures, and data models using SQL and NoSQL databases.
Demonstrated experience building and optimizing high-throughput, high-availability systems, with a strong understanding of performance tuning and scalability trade-offs.
Practical knowledge of backend security principles and best practices, including authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, and secure service-to-service.
Experience leading design discussions, mentoring engineers, and raising the technical bar through code reviews and engineering best practices.
Strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver end-to-end backend solutions.
