Principal Backend Development Engineer (Contract Role)
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Practices
- CI/CD
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Key responsibilities • Own the architecture, design, development, testing and ongoing improvement of core backend services and enterprise applications, primarily using Java. • Design and evolve modular microservice architectures and service interfaces that support scalability, maintainability and reliable integration. • Engineer high-concurrency, high-availability backend systems, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across application and service layers.
• Design robust business workflows and data-processing components, with careful attention to data integrity, consistency, traceability and recovery. • Set technical direction through architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews and clear engineering standards. • Lead complex production investigations, coordinate root-cause analysis and implement preventive improvements to system stability and operational reliability.
• Strengthen software delivery practices through automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, release controls and development tooling. • Work closely with product, QA, infrastructure and other engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into maintainable technical solutions. • Coach and mentor engineers, support technical capability development and promote sound engineering practices across the team.
• Evaluate and responsibly adopt engineering tools, including AI-assisted development tools, where they improve implementation, debugging, test validation and technical do