Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will engineer core distributed systems, optimize real-time data pipelines, and ensure service reliability. This role involves designing high-performance server-side logic and architecting resilient, decentralized system nodes.

What you will do

• Design, scale, and maintain high-performance server-side logic
• Build and optimize flexible, self-documenting API schemas
• Architect resilient, decentralized system nodes
• Structure highly performant database schemas, indexes, and caching strategies
• Stress-test, optimize, and scale core service clusters
• Implement monitoring, automated failover protocols, and error-handling mechanics

Required qualifications

• Mastery of Node.js including microservices, REST APIs, and event loop optimizations
• Mastery of GraphQL including schema design and resolver optimizations
• Mastery of Golang including concurrent programming patterns and microservices
• Mastery of MongoDB including indexing and aggregation pipelines
• Mastery of Kafka including real-time event streaming and message broker architecture
• Mastery of Redis including in-memory caching and pub/sub mechanics
• Proven experience shipping production-grade, highly resilient backend ecosystems
• Deep understanding of data structures, concurrency, and network protocols
• Ability to use profiling tools, load-testing frameworks, and monitoring metrics
• Availability 7 days a week to handle real-time hotfixes and system deployments
• Understanding of digital asset data, transaction validation speeds, and Web3 environments
• Ability to write clean, idiomatic code and bulletproof tests

Benefits

• Extreme Technical Autonomy
• Global Infrastructure
• A Culture of Momentum
• High-Growth Upside

About the company

partyhat is a company looking for an elite Backend Systems Architect to build world-class, hyper-scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure.