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Senior Backend Engineer About the role We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own the core services behind our platform's candidate-matching pipeline. You'll work closely with product and data teams to design APIs that scale to millions of requests per day, while keeping latency and reliability tight enough for real-time customer traffic. Must-have requirements - 5+ years building production backend services in Go, Java, or a comparable statically-typed language - Deep experience with PostgreSQL at scale (query optimization, schema design, replication) - Production experience running services on AWS or a comparable cloud provider - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment - Track record of leading or heavily contributing to a distributed-systems migration or scaling project Nice to have - Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, or similar) - Prior experience mentoring or leading a small engineering team - Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

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Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer

Location
Remote · LATAM / Brazil
Budget
$6k–$8k / month

Must-have skills

Node.jsPostgreSQLAWSAPIs

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Ranked shortlist — Senior Backend Engineer

ACandidate A
92% match

Strong technical fit, relevant domain experience

BCandidate B
84% match

Strong technical skills, limited scale experience

CCandidate C
76% match

Good fundamentals, gap in required stack

DCandidate D
61% match

Adjacent experience, career transition candidate

ECandidate E
44% match

Junior-level, insufficient seniority for this role

Every candidate in your pool receives this level of analysis — ranked position, match reasoning, strengths, concerns, and interview questions.

A

Candidate A — Expanded view

92% evidence strength · Top match

Match reasoning

  • 8 years Python/Django in production environments — matches JD requirement exactly
  • Led backend team of 6 at previous company — aligns with team-lead requirement
  • Shipped payment processing feature in PCI-DSS environment — directly relevant to role spec
  • AWS certified, active since 2021 — infrastructure requirement met

Concerns

  • No mention of Kubernetes — listed as preferred in JD, not confirmed
  • Most recent role is contractor position — clarify availability and notice period

Suggested interview questions

  1. 1

    You've led backend teams before — how did you approach onboarding engineers who were stronger technically than you expected?

  2. 2

    Walk me through the PCI-DSS project — what were the constraints and how did the team adapt?

  3. 3

    The role requires Kubernetes at a working level. How would you describe your current depth there and what would you need to get up to speed?

B

Candidate B — Expanded view

84% evidence strength

Match reasoning

  • 6 years Node.js/TypeScript at two product companies — strong technical foundation
  • Built REST and GraphQL APIs serving thousands of daily active users
  • PostgreSQL and Redis throughout CV — matches required stack
  • Computer Science degree — strong theoretical base for system design round

Concerns

  • Largest team was 3 engineers — no evidence of operating at the 50M+ user scale in the JD
  • No cloud certification listed — AWS/GCP exposure is implied but not confirmed

Suggested interview questions

  1. 1

    Your current systems serve thousands of users. What's your mental model for scaling to 10x that — what breaks first?

  2. 2

    Walk me through a production incident that slipped past your monitoring. What did you change afterwards?

  3. 3

    What's the most complex async processing problem you've shipped, and how did you handle failure modes?

C

Candidate C — Expanded view

76% evidence strength

Match reasoning

  • 5 years backend experience with strong Python fundamentals — core language requirement met
  • Contributed to microservices migration at current company — relevant architecture experience
  • PostgreSQL-heavy background with query performance tuning work evidenced

Concerns

  • Stack is primarily FastAPI/Flask — no Django mentioned, which is a JD requirement
  • No evidence of team lead responsibilities — role requires managing 2+ engineers
  • Kubernetes not referenced anywhere in CV

Suggested interview questions

  1. 1

    You've used FastAPI heavily. What would the learning curve look like moving to Django's ORM and admin patterns, and how would you approach it?

  2. 2

    The role involves leading two engineers. Have you had informal mentorship or on-call coordination responsibilities we can build on?

  3. 3

    Describe the most performance-critical query you've optimised. How did you identify the problem and what was the outcome?

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