Senior Staff Developer - Backend

Job title: Senior Staff Developer - Backend

About the Role As a Sr Staff Developer, you’ll take a leadership role in designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services that power our cybersecurity solutions. You'll mentor junior developers, drive architectural decisions, and work closely with front-end engineers, security teams, and DevOps to create robust and efficient systems.

What You'll Do

• Architect, develop and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and micro-services to support frontend applications.
• Optimise system performance, security, and reliability for large-scale cloud applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, security teams, and DevOps engineers to drive backend innovation.
• Work with databases to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Implement authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
• Guide and mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.
• Continuously improve development processes and promote backend best practices.
• Work with React/Typescript to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in backend development, with exposure to full-stack development.
• Expertise in Go, Python, or Java and experience in DataBricks.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, and micro-services architecture.
• Experience with databases (such as PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming, multithreading, and performance optimisation.
• Familiarity with message queues (such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS).
• Strong understanding of security best practices, authentication, and authorisation mechanisms.
• Proficiency in AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and ECS.
• Familiarity with AI native tools (such as lang chain, lang fuse) and experience in development lifecycle with AI-DLC.

Nice to Have

• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS) and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with AWS services or AZURE services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with cybersecurity products like XDR, MDR, SOC.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST, MITRE.
• Strong experience with Git for version control.
• Interest in cybersecurity and security operations.