Role overview

Backend Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities:

  • Design and build scalable backend systems powering Veda’s API and internal services
  • Own projects end-to-end — from scoping and design to implementation, testing, and production delivery
  • Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to turn technical debt into modern, maintainable, and highly available systems
  • Write clean, well-tested code, and maintain strong CI/CD hygiene
  • Deploy, monitor, and scale services in production using modern cloud tooling (AWS, GCP, or similar)
  • Contribute to system design discussions covering performance, reliability, and data architecture
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
  • Continuously identify and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance

Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Proven experience delivering production systems end-to-end (scoping → design → implementation → production)
  • Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++)
  • Solid understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (Postgres or MySQL), and service-based architectures
  • Experience with version control (Git), unit/integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems
  • Demonstrated ability to design scalable systems and refactor legacy components

Preferred Skills & Experience:

  • Experience in fintech, crypto, or other high-availability systems
  • Familiarity with asynchronous task queues, event-driven architecture, or distributed systems design
  • Prior experience in startups or early-stage, high-ambiguity environments
  • Contributions to open-source projects or technical leadership on significant internal initiatives
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