About the role
Responsibilities:
- Build, own and maintain backend data infrastructure.
- Design and implement database and storage solutions that fit the needs for both data transaction and reporting.
- Build a highly scalable and robust backend architecture from the ground up.
- Test, debug and maintain the application software throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements:
- Must-Have Distributed Systems Experience.
- 2+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling > 5K concurrent requests in production.
- Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic.
- Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale.
- Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management.
- Hands-on experience with CDN optimisation and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments.
- Proven ability to optimise systems, achieving less than 100 ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations.