Sr. Cloud Backend Engineer

This role is part of a highly visible team at a leading enterprise in the hospitality industry, responsible for enhancing guest engagement through advertising and developing backend services in AWS. The team specializes in personalized content delivery, leveraging automation to optimize the experience.

Tech Stack & Requirements

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills required.
• Extensive experience with TypeScript & Node.js.
• Expertise in backend API development.
• Event-driven, microservices architecture.
• Cloud experience preferred, particularly AWS.
• Majority of workloads run on AWS Lambda (serverless).
• 10% containerized workloads (AWS ECS; Kubernetes experience is fine but not required).
• AWS Services utilized : S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, etc.
• Database experience required.
• Senior candidates should be able to discuss design strategy but will not be working on UI / UX development.
• Must be comfortable with CI / CD processes and deploying code independently.
• Organization follows a DevOps model, requiring strong automation and deployment skills.
• Agile methodology with daily stand-ups and biweekly sprints.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Strong communication skills; the team is fully remote and values high engagement (cameras on, responsiveness, proactive communication).
• Computer Science Degree preferred.
• Experience in event-driven architecture is a plus.

Team Structure :

• Two complementary teams.
• Hiring one backend engineer to help build services for personalized email communication.
• Each team consists of approximately five engineers.
• Agile methodology with daily stand-ups and biweekly sprints.