Backend Engineer with DevOps Expertise

About Us

Testing Mavens is a nextgeneration QA & Software Testing Services provider headquartered in New Jersey USA with offshore facilities in India. We have deep expertise in various spheres like Finance and Advisory EdTech Fashion and Pharmacy.

Backend Engineer with strong DevOps

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Backend Engineer with strong DevOps skills to join our engineering team. This role focuses on designing implementing and maintaining robust backend systems and ensuring seamless deployment and management across AWS environments.

If you thrive in a collaborative fastpaced environment and have a strong background in backend development AWS cloud native and infrastructure as code we'd love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Design develop and maintain backend services to support platform features with a strong focus on performance reliability and scalability.
• DevOps & Infrastructure Management: Manage infrastructure and deployments using Terraform Jenkins and AWS to ensure robust and consistent environments across development staging and production.
• API Development: Build and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs ensuring secure efficient data handling and seamless communication across platform components.
• Automation & CI/CD: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins to support efficient automated deployments and streamline development workflows.
• Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting: Monitor and optimize backend performance troubleshoot issues as they arise and implement improvements for scalability and efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Backend Expertise: Proven experience in backend development with a strong understanding of Node.js cloud native functions and services and PostgreSQL. Cloud Infrastructure
• Proficiency: Extensive experience with AWS services including ECS Lambda S3 RDS and CloudFront.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Solid experience with Terraform for managing and provisioning AWS environments.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Skilled in building and managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar tools.
• Security & Reliability Mindset: Strong understanding of security best practices and strategies to ensure secure reliable backend systems.
• Preferred Qualifications: Agile Environment Experience: Comfortable working in a startup or agile environment adapting quickly to changing requirements and priorities.
• Effective Communication: Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively within a crossfunctional team.
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch Grafana or Prometheus for application and infrastructure monitoring.

Key Attributes for Success:

• ProblemSolving Ability: Strong analytical skills with the ability to balance immediate needs with longterm platform stability.
• Team Collaboration: Highly collaborative comfortable working with product and engineering teams and capable of providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Proactive and SelfDirected: Able to manage tasks independently while staying aligned with team goals and timelines.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about backend engineering and infrastructure eager to make an impact in a dynamic growthoriented company.

Soft Skills

• Clear communicator (written and verbal)
• Creative troubleshooting of technical problems
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think outside the box
• Ability to work in a team

Returns

• Fun work environment and a great testing team
• Remote / Work from home option
• Challenge yourself and learn something new every day.