Backend Engineer

RedCloud Consulting is a global business and technology consulting firm that partners with organizations to solve complex challenges using modern data platforms and artificial intelligence. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, playing a critical role in developing microservices and supporting AI-related integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Design develop test and maintain scalable backend services and APIs primarily using Node.js and TypeScript with a transition toward Go as the primary language
• Build and maintain core enterprise level backend frameworks and shared services used across multiple product lines with strong emphasis on versioning documentation and reusability
• Contribute to system architecture decisions to improve scalability stability security and performance across distributed systems
• Develop high performance and secure server side logic with a strong focus on data integrity and fault tolerance
• Optimize backend workflows and database interactions to support large scale usage and low latency requirements
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure efficient API design and seamless data exchange
• Participate in and lead code reviews to maintain consistent quality standards and backend best practices
• Support AI related integrations including service wrappers that expose business logic to AI tooling and agents
• Work with product design QA and engineering leadership to deliver core features from concept through production
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and scalable infrastructure improvements
• Partner with QA to define and execute testing strategies including unit integration load and automation testing
• Provide support to internal build teams by helping integrate troubleshoot and evolve shared services and libraries

Requirements:

• Five or more years of professional backend development experience
• Strong expertise in Node.js and SQL
• Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and microservices based architectures
• Strong understanding of backend performance optimization security principles and data modeling
• Experience working with relational and or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL Cloud SQL or MongoDB
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
• Professional experience with Go is strongly preferred and most new development will be in Go
• Experience with Python is a plus
• Background in Java or C Sharp is acceptable in place of Go experience
• Familiarity with cloud native services including managed databases analytics platforms and serverless tooling
• Experience with CI and CD pipelines automated testing and modern deployment workflows
• Exposure to AI APIs or AI driven systems is a strong advantage
• Working knowledge of frontend frameworks such as Angular is a plus