Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior Backend Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the core services, APIs, and data processing components that power desktop and distributed software applications. This role focuses on performance, reliability, security, and scalability at the service and data layers, ensuring seamless integration with thick client applications such as Electron-based platforms.

The position requires deep expertise in backend architecture, structured data handling, and service design within secure and performance-sensitive environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs to support thick client desktop applications.

Architect service-layer logic for validation, analytics, and business rule enforcement.

Develop and maintain data processing pipelines for structured and semi-structured data.

Optimize backend systems for performance, concurrency, and efficient resource utilization.

Design clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service contracts for client-server communication.

Implement authentication, authorization, and secure data handling mechanisms.

Support secure communication between backend services and Electron or other desktop client frameworks.

Contribute to database schema design and data modeling strategies.

Participate in code reviews and maintain backend engineering standards.

Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to support containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.