Senior Backend Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Almaty, Almaty Special District, Kazakhstan, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex business logic in Golang autonomously, while ensuring high performance and system reliability.
• Design optimal database structures (SQL), manage indexes, and optimize query performance. Build asynchronous service interactions using Kafka.
• Take ownership of backend services lifecycle, including delivery, monitoring and maintaining backend services in the production environment
• Write clean, structured code, conduct code reviews, ensure compliance with architectural guidelines (ADR), and implement engineering best practices.
• Set up monitoring and alerting for your services, participate in Post-Mortem processes, identify root causes of incidents, and automate routine tasks.
• Share expertise with the team, participate in onboarding new members, and contribute to the development of internal libraries and tools.
• Proactively seek improvements in technical implementations and product solutions, striving to deliver the best possible user experience.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 6+ years of commercial backend engineering. With experience solving complex problems in high-load environments
• 4+years of commercial experience with Golang. Knows and has applied advanced features of the Go language in practice
• Strong SQL knowledges, including designing schemas, scaling strategies (replication, partitioning, sharding) and query optimisation for high-load environment
• In-depth knowledge of Redis, familiar with various data structures, and its efficient use in high-load systems
• Experience working with Docker, understanding CI/CD pipelines. Knows how work k8s (or analogs) and cloud infrastructure (like AWS)
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication patterns, with a focus on reliability in high load environment
• Knows main microservice architecture patterns. Deep understanding of how to build efficient interactions between client and server applications, knows limitations
• Proven ability to design and implement a full observability strategy, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing
• An interest in new technologies, a collaborative spirit, and a drive to continuously develop your skills

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.
• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.
• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.
• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.