Senior Backend Developer specializing in designing and building event-driven systems. Part of a digital advertising team working with major platforms globally.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient event-driven microservices and data pipelines.
Write clean, high-performance code in PHP. Knowledge of other languages is advantageous.
Own and operate the messaging infrastructure (e.g., Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS) that powers our platform.
Implement robust error handling, retries, and dead-letter queue (DLQ) strategies to guarantee data integrity and eventual consistency.
Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces to ensure visibility and rapid troubleshooting in a complex distributed environment.
Mentor mid-level and junior developers, conduct code reviews, and champion best practices for event-driven architecture (EDA).
Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and frontend engineers to build cohesive and powerful features.
Requirements
5+ years of professional experience in backend software development.
Deep, hands-on experience with designing and building event-driven systems and microservice architectures.
Proven expertise with at least one major messaging or streaming platform, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or Google Pub/Sub.
Strong proficiency in a modern backend programming language like PHP and Go. Other languages like JavaScript, Java, C# or Python are a plus.
Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases and a clear understanding of their trade-offs in a distributed environment.
Practical experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
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