Responsibilities
- Architecture & implementation of scalable REST/GraphQL APIs (OpenAPI-driven)
- Data model & persistence (PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector), migration strategy
- AuthN/AuthZ (OIDC/OAuth2 with Azure AD / B2C), RBAC, rate limiting
- Event/queue-based orchestration (Azure Service Bus or similar), idempotence & retries
- Observability (OpenTelemetry, dashboards, alerting) & SLO/SLA definition
- Security & compliance (key vault, private endpoints, secrets rotation, GDPR concept)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps), IaC (Bicep/Terraform), blue/green deployments
- Technical leadership: coding standards, reviews, API contracts (AsyncAPI)
Desired Candidate Profile
- 5+ years of backend experience (2+ as lead/architect)
- TypeScript/Node.js (Express/Fastify), strong API/domain modeling
- Azure: AKS or App Service, Azure AD/B2C, Service Bus, Storage/Blob, Monitor
- SQL: PostgreSQL (query optimization, indexes, migrations), basic knowledge of pgvector
- OpenAPI/Swagger, contract testing, end-to-end security (mTLS, JWT, CORS)
- Clean code & tests (Jest/Vitest), performance/load testing (k6)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with search/ranking systems, caching (Redis), feature flags
- Experience with HR/ATS integrations, SFTP/batch imports
- Working method: API-first, clean code, trunk-based development, mandatory code reviews
- Tools/Stack: GitHub, GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, Docker, pnpm/Turborepo (Monorepo), Jira/Linear, Notion/Confluence
- On-call/Support: rotating, you build it, you run it
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