Software Development Engineer III (Backend) - Contacts
HighLevel (company site, opens in a new tab)5+ yrsRemoteDirect career pageEst. 22–38 LPA
Posted on 10 Sept
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Job description
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About This Role
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs handling large-scale workloads with high performance and low latency.
- Optimize backend services for scalability, performance, availability, and reliability including troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, Design, Engineering) to deliver high-quality features and improve engineering practices.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on backend software development experience.
- Proficient in TypeScript and Node.js; candidates with experience in JavaScript, Go, Java, Python, or C# willing to use TypeScript/Node.js are also considered.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and working knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, Docker, AWS or GCP cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring tools (Grafana, Sentry, ELK, or similar).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in working on high-scale SaaS or distributed backend systems with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Technical proficiency with microservices, containerization, cloud-native architectures, caching, messaging systems, and event-driven design.
- Capable of independently delivering scalable backend solutions while working collaboratively across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.