26-3104: Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
Job ID#: 26-3104
Location: Hyderabad, India.
Who We Are:
Since our inception back in 2006, Navitas has grown to be an industry leader in the digital transformation space, and we’ve served as trusted advisors supporting our client base within the commercial, federal, and state and local markets.
What We Do:
At our very core, we’re a group of problem solvers providing our award-winning technology solutions to drive digital acceleration for our customers! With proven solutions, award-winning technologies, and a team of expert problem solvers, Navitas has consistently empowered customers to use technology as a competitive advantage and deliver cutting-edge transformative solutions.
About the role
We're looking for senior backend engineers to join the engineering team of a US-based B2B e-commerce client. You'll build and scale backend services for a high-traffic commerce platform and work closely with the client's US-based engineering team.
Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in Go
Build event-driven and streaming workflows using Kafka
Design data models and write efficient queries in PostgreSQL
Deploy and run services on AWS, focusing on reliability, performance and monitoring
Work with front-end, product and QA teams on integrations and API contracts
Take part in code reviews, technical design discussions and production support
Write clean, tested and well-documented code
Must-have skills
7+ years of backend development experience
Strong hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production systems
Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms
Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query optimization and transactions
Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda or similar)
Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with microservices
Solid understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and performance tuning
Good to have
E-commerce or B2B commerce platform experience
Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
CI/CD using GitHub Actions or similar
Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Sentry or Datadog
Experience working directly with US clients
Working hours
Must overlap with US Eastern Time until about 2 PM ET (roughly 6:30 PM – 12:30 AM IST)
Flexibility for releases or production issues when needed.
The salary range listed reflects our standard market pay structure. Final compensation will be determined based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s unique qualifications, skills required for the position, professional experience, education, and business needs, at the time of hire.
Equal Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Navitas Business Consulting is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Navitas Human Resources.
Navitas is an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment and opportunities for advancement, compensation, training, and growth according to individual merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, genetic information, disability, veteran-status veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable Federal, state, or local law. Our goal is for each staff member to have the opportunity to grow to the limits of their abilities and to achieve personal and organizational objectives. We will support positive programs for equal treatment of all staff and full utilization of all qualified employees at all levels within Navitas.