Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & Azure

Hudson Manpower; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson Manpower seeks an experienced Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This hands-on role focuses on Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed architectures.

The ideal candidate has 8–10+ years of professional software experience with strong Node.js and TS, extensive Azure expertise, and proven ability to lead resilient cloud-native services.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong, recent Node.js backend development.
• Strong TypeScript development experience.
• Experience designing and developing large‑scale distributed systems.
• Meaningful, recent Microsoft Azure experience.
• Strong REST API development experience.
• Experience with microservices/service‑oriented architectures.
• Experience with asynchronous and event‑driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed‑system concepts: scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, idempotency, retry strategies, eventual consistency, service‑to‑service communication, failure recovery.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, well‑tested production code.
• Production application troubleshooting and support experience.
• Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and observability.
• Ability to make engineering decisions within established architecture.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build large‑scale distributed systems supporting enterprise platforms.
• Develop highly available, resilient, and fault‑tolerant cloud‑native services.
• Design APIs capable of handling significant transaction volumes.
• Make technical decisions involving performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Build asynchronous and event‑driven integrations.
• Deploy containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.
• Develop CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions and Helm.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring for production systems.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and service‑level tests.
• Participate in code and technical design reviews.
• Identify and address technical debt.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering teams.
• Take operational ownership of applications after deployment.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Microsoft Azure

REST APIs

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability & reliability

Production troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

AKS

Azure Service Bus

Azure Functions

Cosmos DB

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Hudson Manpower seeks an experienced Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This hands-on role focuses on Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and distributed architectures.

The ideal candidate has 8–10+ years of professional software experience with strong Node.js and TS, extensive Azure expertise, and proven ability to lead resilient cloud-native services.