Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview:

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team at Movate. If you are passionate about building scalable, high-performance backend systems, solving complex technical challenges, and working with modern technologies in a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key contributor to the core engineering team, focusing on backend development and continuous enhancement of the SaaS technology platform.
• Take end-to-end ownership of core microservices, including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Lead the backend development of new features and enhancements, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, frontend engineers, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs.
• Write clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-tested code following software engineering best practices.
• Participate actively in an Agile, delivery-focused development environment, contributing to sprint planning, code reviews, estimation, and timely delivery.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues across backend systems.
• Contribute to technical architecture and design decisions for new and existing backend components.
• Support smooth deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production stability of backend services.
• Promote engineering best practices through code reviews, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, building scalable and production-grade applications.
• Strong programming expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, and Python. Mandatory
• Proven hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining microservices-based architectures. Mandatory
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS; experience with GCP or Azure is also relevant.
• Good working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience with messaging, queueing, and streaming technologies such as Redis Streams, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
• Experience working on data-intensive products and applications, with a strong understanding of data-driven application development.
• Familiarity with telephony systems, voice technologies, and communication protocols such as SIP and WebRTC. Preferred / Advantage
• Experience working with monorepo architecture and managing shared codebases across multiple services. Preferred / Advantage
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, system design, scalability, performance optimization, and backend engineering best practices.

What Success Looks Like:

• Scalable and reliable automation solutions are delivered in line with business and technical requirements.
• Power Platform environments remain secure, governed, and operationally stable.
• Automation standards, reuse, and best practices are consistently adopted across the team.
• Enterprise integrations and releases are managed with strong quality and control. Preferred

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Skills

AWS, DynamoDB, Kafka, Microservices, NestJS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, RabbitMQ, TypeScript