Backend Engineering Specialist
About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Engineer to join our high-performing engineering team, focused on building highly available, large-scale, and low-latency data platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can immediately contribute to solving complex challenges and driving technical excellence.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain highly available backend systems and APIs.Lead DevOps initiatives including CI/CD pipeline management, cloud infrastructure, and container orchestration. Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform ensuring secure reproducible automated deployments. Work closely with stakeholders product owners cross-functional teams to deliver new features improve existing systems ensure disaster recovery readiness compliance security best practices Manage AWS services (S3 RDS EventBridge SQS IAM VPC ECR etc). Deploy manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters Docker images in production environments troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems drive root cause analysis Maintain high standards of code quality testing documentation Collaborate engineering teams Platform Security UX seamless integration delivery Required Skills Professional experience functional programming Node.js / JavaScript proven experience DevOps practices cloud-native environments Deep hands-on experience Kubernetes (EKS) Docker Expertise AWS S3 RDS EventBridge SQS DMS Security Groups IAM VPCs ECR Strong proficiency SQL relational databases MSSQL PostgreSQL MySQL Aurora RDS Professional experience Terraform infrastructure as code Solid understanding application security use security tools Wiz Snyk Strong debugging issue resolution troubleshooting skills Excellent communication skills work independently collaboratively agile environment Pragmatic mindset strong sense ownership craftsmanship English proficiency professional communication Nice to Have Skills Experience automated database migrations versioning Background API integration distribution systems Familiarity monitoring observability tools Prometheus Grafana Exposure multi-region cloud deployments Previous supporting regulated industries compliance-driven environments Passion mentoring team members driving engineering best practices Avenue Code ensures privacy candidates regulations GDPR CCPA CPRA data used recruitment processes shared limited manner clients CompassUOL Group companies necessary provide services