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Senior Backend Scalability Engineer

3 days, 11 hours ago
United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Mexico
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Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
GraphQL JavaScript Node.js REST API TypeScript
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Sports Academy

Sports Academy

Sports Academy offers a transformative educational experience that integrates sports and academics, fostering resilience, teamwork, and leadership skills in students to prepare them for success in both their educational and personal lives.

Education Services
Founded 2014
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Description

  • Audit services, APIs, databases, queues, and data flows to identify bottlenecks and scalability risks.
  • Write clear audit reports explaining findings, impact, and recommended fixes.
  • Refactor code, redesign schemas, add caching, optimize queries, and deploy production fixes.
  • Redesign backend components using scalable patterns and appropriate service boundaries.
  • Optimize databases and data flows through indexing, schema improvements, and latency reduction.
  • Collaborate with engineers through pairing, code reviews, and structured handoffs.
  • Assess system performance under load and address critical reliability issues.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience designing and scaling production systems.
  • Senior-level fluency with Node.js or related JavaScript/TypeScript backend technologies.
  • Expertise with Aurora or comparable relational databases at scale.
  • Experience designing and scaling REST or GraphQL APIs.
  • Strong understanding of caching, queues, background jobs, eventual consistency, and distributed-system failures.
  • Experience with profiling, performance optimization, and load testing.
  • Ability to write production code and take ownership of implementation.
  • Strong written communication and ability to produce actionable technical audits.
  • Fully remote setup with reliable internet and a quiet workspace; open globally.
  • Daily use of AI tools in development workflows, including AI coding and review tools.
  • Preferred: experience leading migrations, major refactors, database sharding, or meaningful infrastructure cost optimization.

Benefits

  • Part-time consulting contract with flexible hours based on scope.
  • Ongoing engagement with potential transition to a full-time role based on fit and results.
  • Fully remote work from anywhere in the world.
  • Opportunity to ship impactful backend improvements supporting students and classroom operations.

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