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Backend Engineer, Senior - ChowNow
Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer crafting resilient, observable, and secure services in a fast‑paced, CI/CD‑driven environment, leveraging Python, Node.js, and AWS to power high‑traffic food‑ordering platforms.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high‑throughput backend services that support thousands of daily food orders.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define architecture, ensuring observability, security, and scalability.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies to accelerate release cycles.
- Conduct code reviews, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis to continuously improve system reliability.
- Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in clean code, documentation, and DevOps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience with Python and Node.js.
- Proficient with AWS services (EC2, Lambda, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Hands‑on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Solid grasp of security principles, including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
Skills
pythonnodejsawscicd