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Backend Architect

Vantage Point Consulting

 

Denver, CO, USA

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 8+ years
Availability: Hybrid
Openings: 1
Category: Backend Architect
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

Define and evolve system architecture for scalability, reliability, and performance while leading technical delivery and mentoring engineering teams.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain architectural documentation, technical specifications, and technology stack improvements.
  • Break down complex initiatives into actionable tasks, providing accurate Level of Effort (LOE) estimates and acceptance criteria.
  • Troubleshoot critical production issues, analyze system bottlenecks, and implement performance and capacity optimizations.
  • Mentor junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and establishing engineering best practices.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of critical features and systems, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Required Skills

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in architecture roles.
  • Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design.
  • Production experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway).
  • Strong knowledge of Kafka or similar event streaming platforms, including consumer/producer tuning and partition strategies.
  • Experience implementing resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and timeouts.
  • Proficiency in performance profiling, latency reduction, caching strategies, and load testing.

Preferred Skills

  • Knowledge of observability tools including DataDog, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, and Grafana.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with SRE practices, DevOps methodologies, and GraphQL/REST API design.

Education

Any Gradute

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