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Snapmint

Senior Backend Engineer

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Snapmint is looking for a highly hands-on Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) who enjoys writing production code while driving the architecture of complex backend systems. This role is suited for engineers who thrive in solving non-trivial technical challenges, designing scalable systems, and building high-performance services that power a rapidly growing fintech platform. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and take ownership of critical backend components.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large-scale backend systems and distributed services.
  • Drive architecture decisions that impact multiple engineering teams.
  • Write high-quality production code and actively contribute to core backend components.
  • Design fault-tolerant, scalable, and high-throughput services.
  • Lead system design reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
  • Identify technical debt and drive long-term platform improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate the overall engineering quality of the team.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to build a scalable system.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of backend development experience.
  • Strong programming expertise in Node.js (preferred) or another modern backend language.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience building event-driven or asynchronous architectures.
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience building systems on cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience with microservices architecture and API design.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of performance optimisation and scalability patterns.
  • Experience designing low-latency or high-throughput services.
  • Prior experience in a high-growth product company.
  • Contributions to open-source projects are a plus.

This job was posted by Parvinder Kaur from Snapmint.

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