Backend Developer

Key Role & Responsibility: Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs that power the platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and security: Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure backend services, APIs, and integration components. Design and implement scalable microservices and distributed systems. Integrate with upstream and downstream systems, devices, and data sources.

Manage and optimise relational and non-relational databases, including schema design, query optimisation, and data integrity. Develop data processing, transformation, and analytics services. Implement application monitoring, logging, and observability features to support system reliability and operational troubleshooting.

Troubleshoot and resolve application and integration issues to ensure service reliability and performance. Work closely with frontend engineers, data teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions. Implement authentication, authorisation, and other security best practices in backend systems.

Support testing, deployment, and production operations activities. Write clean, well-documented, and testable code, and participate in peer code reviews. Maintain technical documentation and system design artefacts.

Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Collaborate effectively with team members to deliver solutions and support knowledge