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Backend Engineer II Ideal Experience: 25 Years About the Role We're looking for engineers who can independently design and build reliable backend services. Beyond writing code, you should be comfortable thinking about performance, data consistency, reliability, and maintainability. Responsibilities - Design and implement backend services. - Translate business requirements into technical solutions. - Design productive database schemas. - Build reliable asynchronous workflows. - Debug production issues independently. - Review code and mentor junior engineers. - Improve application performance and reliability. - Contribute to technical design discussions. Must Have Strong Programming Skills - Proficiency in at least one backend language. - Strong Object-Oriented Design. - Good understanding of design principles. - REST API design. - Writing maintainable, testable code. Database Knowledge Comfortable with - Database design - Query optimization - Transactions - Indexing strategies - Locking (high-level understanding) - Isolation levels (basic understanding) - Data modelling Concurrency Working knowledge of - Race conditions - Concurrent updates - Idempotency (basic understanding) - Optimistic vs pessimistic locking (conceptual) - Thread safety (language dependent) Asynchronous Systems Experience with - Background jobs - Queues - Retry mechanisms - Scheduled jobs - Event-driven workflows (nice to have) Problem Solving Should be comfortable - Debugging production issues. - Reading logs. - Identifying bottlenecks. - Breaking large features into smaller tasks. - Evaluating trade-offs before implementation. Good to Have Experience with - Redis - RabbitMQ / Kafka / BullMQ or similar - Docker - Kubernetes - AWS - CI/CD - Monitoring & Logging tools What We Look For Successful engineers here typically - Think before coding. - Write maintainable solutions. - Understand why a design works, not just how. - Consider edge cases. - Take ownership of production issues. - Help improve the engineering practices of the team. .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.