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 Profile

The 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.

Highlights

Lead 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