Senior Backend Engineer

Description

KELA is looking for a highly motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team in building our product.

Our engineering team is small enough that you can have a significant impact on both the product and the company. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and optimizing our large-scale backend systems and complex data collection pipelines.

We work with massive amounts of data at high scale, using a microservices architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and flexibility. You’ll be tackling challenging engineering problems while shaping our architecture for performance and long-term growth.

Technology Stack:

C#, TypeScript (NestJS / NodeJS), MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and more.

About the position

Work as part of a team to design, build, and maintain high-performance backend services in a microservices environment.
Take ownership of complex features and systems, from design through implementation.
Optimize data collection pipelines and backend systems for scalability and efficiency.
Continuously learn, evaluate, and adopt new technologies and methodologies to improve our products and architecture.
Requirements

Requirements

At least 4 years of relevant experience as a backend engineer.
Strong experience with an object-oriented programming language (C#, Java, etc.).
Proven experience building and maintaining microservices-based architectures.
Solid understanding of backend architectures, distributed systems, and data handling at scale.
Sense of ownership, responsibility, and the ability to work well in a team.
Excellent communication skills.

Advantages

Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
Hands-on with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
Experience with data collection pipelines or large-scale data systems.