Job Description

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with strong fundamentals in TypeScript and hands-on experience building and maintaining distributed microservices in GCP. You’ll be designing APIs, building resilient services, optimising performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship impactful features.

The Responsibilities:

• Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services using Typescript in a microservices architecture, prioritising availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Versa's platform
• Work with the back end engineering team to explore and create new design / architectures geared towards scale, maintainability, and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and reliability.

Job Requirements

Requirements:

• 3+ years backend engineering experience, preferably in distributed microservices architectures.
• Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals
• Strong TypeScript skills, with deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
• Experience deploying and operating services on GCP (or other cloud providers)
• Solid understanding of REST API design and best practices.
• Familiarity with message queues/event streaming (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with MySQL and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases)
• Experience with containerisation and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of unit/integration testing frameworks
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with fintech or regulated industry is a plus

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