Staff Software Engineer Backend

This is a highimpact handson role where youll independently lead systemlevel backend projects from design through production. Youll architect services for scalability and performance drive design reviews contribute to the codebase and help guide junior and senior engineers. Your work will directly affect the reliability maintainability and evolution of systems handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. 

What Makes This Role Special 

This is a Stafflevel role not just an expert coder but a leader who can: 

• Define and own backend architecture across multiple systems or domains. 
• Drive engineering culture by mentoring others and shaping standards. 
• Be a goto person for technical guidance complex debugging and highstakes decision making. 
• Influence not only what we build but how we build it from tools to processes. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design and implement robust scalable highperformance backend systems APIs and services using bestinclass architecture practices. 
• Take ownership of systemwide components from planning to deployment and monitoring. 
• Collaborate closely with product owners frontend teams DevOps and architects to translate business needs into engineering solutions. 
• Review and approve complex code changes ensuring maintainability performance and security. 
• Lead and participate in systemwide debugging profiling and performance tuning efforts. 
• Drive the technical direction of backend projects including the selection of frameworks design of APIs and service boundaries. 
• Mentor engineers in clean code practices domaindriven design and performancefirst development. 
• Support the team during oncall duties and help lead effective incident responses and postmortems. 
• Help define and enforce technical standards review pull requests and uphold best practices in version control CI/CD and automated testing. 
• Contribute to the evolution of development pipelines test strategies and deployment tooling. 
• Assist in recruitment by conducting technical interviews and coding assessments.

Qualifications :

Who You Are: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience. 
• 8 years of backend development experience including designing distributed systems. 
• Strong command of OOP principles software architecture and design patterns. 
• Advanced knowledge and handson experience with PHP experience in other backend languages is a plus. 
• Proven track record working with microservices and APIs 
• Deep understanding of highconcurrency systems load balancing and asynchronous processing. 
• Strong experience with databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching strategies. 
• Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ 
• Skilled in performance profiling query optimization and system diagnostics. 
• Familiar with Docker Kubernetes and containerbased development environments. 
• Experience in CI/CD automated deployments and infrastructureascode workflows. 
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills in production environments. 

NicetoHaves / Preferred Skills: 

• Familiarity with realtime data streaming. 
• Experience designing APIs consumed by frontendheavy applications (React mobile). 
• Deep knowledge of security best practices in distributed environments. 
• Contributions to opensource backend frameworks or internal libraries/tools. 
• Exposure to monitoring/observability stacks (like Grafana). 
• Experience with domaindriven design (DDD) and event driven architecture. 
• Working knowledge of GraphQL 

Additional Information :

What we offer you

• An exceptional compensation package along with relocation support to help you move to the Grand Duchy.
• Your health is our wealth: private health insurance and free gym membership.
• On top of the minimum 26 vacation days we also provide additional days the longer you work for us.
• We offer breakfast for our employees every day to help them begin the workday.
• The opportunity to see your work directly contribute to the success of the company.
• When you grow we grow: You have the chance to attend events meetups and other perks for your professional growth.
• Youre joining a family and you are going to look the part! We give out companybranded merchandise and clothes to every single new joiner.

Byborg Enterprises is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment based on their skills abilities and experience. We thrive to attract and hire a strong talented and diverse workforce prohibiting discrimination based on race color religious or political beliefs age nationality physical mental or developmental disability gender sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER: This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or allinclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at managements discretion. 

During the recruitment process candidates will be requested to provide with a recent criminal record extract for background screening purpose.

NOTE: Byborg Enterprises does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. We consider any resume (CV) or biography received from an agency without prior approval from our Legal and Recruiting Department to be unsolicited and such submissions will not be recognized for purposes of ownership of the candidate.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime