Lead Backend Engineer - Scalable Distributed Systems

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

your Jared is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a hands-on role focused on Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and production readiness.

The ideal candidate will have 8–10+ years of experience with strong REST API, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability skills, and the ability to own architecture decisions and mentor others in a cloud-native environment.

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

Azure

REST APIs

Microservices

Event-driven

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Production support

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

Azure Service Bus

Helm

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Job description

your Jared is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. This is a hands-on role focused on Node.js, TypeScript, Azure, microservices, and production readiness.

The ideal candidate will have 8–10+ years of experience with strong REST API, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability skills, and the ability to own architecture decisions and mentor others in a cloud-native environment.