Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native Microservices

Progress Residential®; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Paid time off

Learning & development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Progress Residential in Tempe, AZ is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and deliver scalable services and customer experiences on AWS. This role focuses on backend (80%) with some frontend work, joining a team committed to agile and DevOps practices and delivering high-quality software on time.

You will collaborate with architects and senior developers to align with enterprise standards, drive improvements, and support testing, deployments, and maintenance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent engineering field.
• 6-8 years of solid development experience building internet-scale web/mobile apps and public APIs.
• Expertise in designing highly-scalable microservices and storage layers using NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS Serverless, MongoDB.
• Experience in building Microservices & REST APIs with focus on System Design and Integration.
• Good understanding of Public Cloud Services, preferably AWS.
• Good SQL and NoSQL skills.
• Experience with React, React Native, GraphQL or Salesforce platform is preferred.
• Experience with SDLC/Agile and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub/Bitbucket, Docker).
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills; ability to work with stakeholders.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and adapt to priority changes.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development across a variety of technologies and platforms.
• Build highly performant, scalable, cloud-native microservices-based applications using AWS Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, TypeScript, Key-Value Stores, and MongoDB.
• Evaluate new technology for inclusion in our stack.
• Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
• Support the refactoring and re-architecting of existing software.
• Work jointly with other developers to identify and create common reusable components.
• Drive technical consolidation and reduction of duplicate effort across projects.
• The candidate should have a strong understanding of agile software development and how that impacts the operations of software; and must participate in strategy discussion with all levels of management and business sponsors
• Work closely with architects, engineering manager and other senior developers to understand the technology roadmap and assist in enforcing the enterprise architecture standards
• Support testing & deployment cycles, including coordinating UAT and gathering feedback from pre-release testers.
• Log, track, and manage issues, bugs, and enhancement/ features requests logged in JIRA.
• Participate in software release and post-release activities, including developing designs for proof of concepts.
• Capture, mitigate and /or escalation risks & issues in a timely fashion
• Ensure development standards and consistency of specifications across sub-systems
• Write and/or review deliverables, solution blueprints, and architecture documentation

Skills

Microservices design

REST APIs

Cloud computing

SQL/NoSQL

CI/CD

Agile practices

Communication

Problem solving

Teamwork

Frontend basics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent engineering field

Tools

NodeJS

TypeScript

AWS Serverless

MongoDB

React

React Native

GraphQL

Salesforce

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Progress Residential in Tempe, AZ is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and deliver scalable services and customer experiences on AWS. This role focuses on backend (80%) with some frontend work, joining a team committed to agile and DevOps practices and delivering high-quality software on time.

You will collaborate with architects and senior developers to align with enterprise standards, drive improvements, and support testing, deployments, and maintenance.