YOUR DAY-TO-DAY: (Responsibilities)

● Design, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services and microservices supporting digital products.

● Develop secure, resilient, and high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services consumed by millions of users.

● Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code using modern software engineering practices, including unit, integration, and performance testing.

● Design distributed systems capable of supporting high traffic, low latency, and high availability.

● Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers,

messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure.

● Participate in architecture reviews and influence technical decisions for new products,

platform enhancements, and modernization initiatives.

● Take ownership of backend services throughout their lifecycle, including design,

implementation, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement.

● Serve as a technical leader on complex engineering initiatives by helping guide architectural decisions, establishing engineering best practices, and influencing technical direction across the team.

● Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, QA, Security, and cross-functional engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

● Perform thoughtful code reviews while mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices across the organization.

● Improve platform observability through centralized logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and performance metrics.

● Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and continuous delivery initiatives that improve software quality and release velocity.

● Drive technical debt reduction, platform modernization, and adoption of modern backend engineering practices.

● Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.

● Influence engineering decisions through data-driven problem solving, technical expertise, and collaborative partnership across teams.





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Skills and Requirements

● 6+ years of professional experience building backend applications in production environments.

● Strong experience designing distributed systems and scalable service-oriented architectures.

● Expert-level proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language such as

Go, Java, Python, C#, or a comparable language.

● Extensive experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.

● Strong understanding of software architecture principles, including SOLID, Clean

Architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and common design patterns.

● Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design,

query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.

● Hands-on experience with caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.





● Experience with asynchronous messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka,

RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.

● Experience deploying and operating services within cloud environments, preferably

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS.

● Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native application development.

● Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

● Familiarity with observability tools including centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing.

● Strong understanding of backend security best practices, including authentication,

authorization, API security, and secrets management.

● Experience working within Agile software development environments.

● Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from design through production while balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

● Excellent analytical, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

● Strong written and verbal communication skills.

● Advanced English proficiency. Experience supporting products serving millions of daily active users.

● Experience building highly available, low-latency backend platforms operating at internet scale.

● Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies.

● Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).

● Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.

● Experience contributing to backend platform modernization, cloud migration, or large-scale architectural transformation initiatives.

● Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across multiple engineering initiatives.

● Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, production operations, and operational excellence.

● Experience working with AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot,

Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or similar) to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Core Digital) (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Ciudad de México