Senior Backend Engineer - EMEA at Flare Emergency Response

About the role:

We seek a skilled professional to develop and expand a more sophisticated API layer for a real-time (live) platform. You will work closely with frontend developers, a product manager, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration and stepwise/modular implementation of new APIs, architectures, and frameworks. This role offers the opportunity to lead backend innovation on a real-time platform, including several data streams, integrations of client-side applications, solving complex problems, and driving critical architectural changes.

This is what you will do: 

API Layer Development

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of a sophisticated API layer for real-time operations.
• Migrate existing architecture to a more modular, service-oriented approach.
• Ensure APIs are highly performant, scalable, and resilient for real-time applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define backend architecture that supports real-time data processing.
• Develop and implement best practices for data access, caching, and transaction handling.
• Implement strategies for efficient data fetching and reduced database dependency.

Performance Optimization

• Implement unit tests, integration tests, and other automated testing frameworks to ensure API reliability.
• Monitor and improve backend performance metrics (latency, throughput, etc.).
• Identify bottlenecks in the current database and API layer and propose effective solutions.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead backend development efforts, ensuring deliverables are met on time.
• Collaborate with various teams to ensure successful deployment and migration to new architectures.
• Define new architectures and strategies for improved performance and developer experience.

Requirements

Core Technical Expertise

• Strong experience in Node.js and other JavaScript-based backend frameworks.
• Deep understanding of both GraphQL and RESTful APIs, API design principles, and modern API tools.
• Solid experience with real-time systems and related protocols like WebSockets or MQTT.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and relational database management systems.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases.
• Experience with optimizing database queries, schema design, and reducing database dependency.

Architecture & Design

• Strong knowledge of designing modular and decoupled systems.
• Experience in implementing microservices and distributed system architectures.
• Experience with modular monolith architectures. 
• Proven ability to optimize APIs for high concurrency and low latency.
• Experience in caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis, Memcached) and load-balancing techniques.

Testing & Deployment

• Proficient in backend testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies.
• Familiarity with observability practices & tools for monitoring backend services.

Soft Skills

• Collaborative mindset and excellent communication and leadership abilities to coordinate with a diverse technical team.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Commitment to delivering reliable and efficient work/high work quality expectations.

Benefits

To ensure you bring your 100% self to work, we are happy to share with you what we are offering once you choose to join us at Rescue: 

• A chance to make an impact in a mission-driven organization.
• Fully remote role with the flexibility to work from anywhere.
• Unlimited paid time off.