Backend Engineer: Own Scalable APIs & Services

Evlo AI; Washington (District of Columbia); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Evlo AI in Washington DC seeks a backend engineer to design and build core services powering customer-facing products accessed daily. You will own end-to-end backend systems, including API design, data modeling, and performance tuning.

You will partner with frontend/mobile teams, product managers, and infra to ship features end-to-end on AWS, using Docker and Kubernetes, with reliability and latency targets and well-reviewed code.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of backend software engineering experience with production ownership.
• Deep proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Go, Java, or Node.js.
• Strong relational database skills — PostgreSQL/MySQL; indexing and optimization.
• Hands-on AWS experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3 and containerized deployments.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: caching, retries, idempotency, latency budgets.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in Python, Go, or Node.js, exposing REST and gRPC APIs.
• Own database architecture across PostgreSQL and Redis, including schema design and migrations.
• Build and operate event-driven pipelines using Kafka (or SQS/SNS) to handle asynchronous workflows at scale.
• Ship services to production on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes, with monitoring and on-call ownership.
• Write unit, integration, and load tests; maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for deployments.
• Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts, latency budgets, and feature scoping.
• Participate in architecture reviews, incident postmortems, and engineering standards.

Connaissances

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Unit testing

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Outils

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Description du poste

Evlo AI in Washington DC seeks a backend engineer to design and build core services powering customer-facing products accessed daily. You will own end-to-end backend systems, including API design, data modeling, and performance tuning.

You will partner with frontend/mobile teams, product managers, and infra to ship features end-to-end on AWS, using Docker and Kubernetes, with reliability and latency targets and well-reviewed code.