Sr. Backend Engineer (FAM)

solaireresort; Parañaque; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

solaireresort is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to design, develop and maintain robust APIs and services in a high‑transaction platform. You will integrate with payment, reporting, and gaming‑related components while ensuring security and scalability.

You will collaborate with frontend teams, QA, DevOps, and product owners to deliver reliable backend systems, improve performance, and support ongoing platform modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Solid professional experience in backend software development.
• Experience with Java, Node.js, Go, C#, Python or similar.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Strong SQL knowledge with MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server/Oracle.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, version control and SDLC practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, containers and messaging queues.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Support platform enhancements, feature development, and maintenance.
• Maintain backend integrations with internal systems and third‑party providers.
• Analyze requirements and propose implementable solutions.
• Triage production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Improve performance, reliability, and security of backend systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders; participate in code reviews.

Skills

Backend development

REST APIs

Java

Node.js

Go

C#

Python

SQL/Databases

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security best practices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, APIs, and system components for the FunaloMAX platform. Support platform enhancements, new feature development, technical improvements, system maintenance, and business‑requested changes. Maintain and improve backend integrations with internal systems, gaming‑related services, payment providers, reporting tools, third‑party vendors, and operational platforms. Analyze business and technical requirements, identify backend impact, and propose practical implementation solutions. Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, implement fixes, and support timely incident resolution. Improve backend system performance, reliability, scalability, monitoring, logging, and error handling. Review and enhance existing backend code, database queries, API flows, and service logic to improve maintainability and stability. Collaborate with frontend engineers, QA engineers, DevOps, product owners, business users, vendors, security, and compliance stakeholders. Participate in code reviews and ensure backend implementation follows engineering standards, security requirements, and platform best practices. Prepare and maintain technical documentation, API specifications, integration notes, troubleshooting guides, and support handover materials. Support release activities, deployment validation, production verification, and post‑release monitoring. Mentor junior or mid‑level engineers when required and contribute to backend engineering best practices.

Requirements Solid professional experience in backend software development. Hands‑on experience with backend programming languages such as Java, Node.js, Go, C#, Python, or other relevant backend technologies. Experience designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs, backend services, and service‑to‑service integrations. Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle. Experience with backend troubleshooting, production support, log analysis, performance tuning, and issue resolution. Good understanding of API authentication, authorization, data validation, transaction handling, error handling, and backend security practices. Familiarity with version control, CI/CD processes, deployment workflows, and software development lifecycle practices. Ability to work with existing systems, understand legacy or inherited code, and improve maintainability without unnecessary disruption. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills. Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Experience supporting online gaming, casino systems, gaming platforms, fintech, payment systems, e‑commerce, or other high‑transaction digital platforms. Experience handling third‑party vendor integrations and external platform dependencies. Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, microservices, message queues, caching, or distributed system design. Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, production support, and performance optimization. Understanding of secure coding, data privacy, access control, audit logging, regulatory requirements, and compliance‑driven environments. Experience working on platform migration, platform stabilization, technical debt reduction, or backend modernization initiatives.