Senior Backend Engineer

• Yotpo is leading the next era of trust and loyalty in eCommerce. With AI-powered Reviews and Loyalty solutions, we help brands turn browsers into customers and customers into advocates. Through deep integrations across the eCommerce ecosystem and the trust of over 30,000 global brands, Yotpo delivers seamless omnichannel experiences that increase conversion, strengthen customer relationships, and drive profitable, long-term growth.Your Mission at Yotpo As a Backend Engineer, you build the scalable, resilient engine that powers the Yotpo platform. Your mission is to design and implement high-performance services that handle massive scale, ensuring data integrity and system reliability for thousands of brands. Working within a product team, you will translate complex business logic into robust architectural solutions, ensuring that our infrastructure can scale as fast as our customers do.
• Key Responsibilities
• Distributed Systems Design: Design and build microservices and event-driven architectures that are resilient, scalable, and maintainable. You will make critical decisions on synchronous vs. asynchronous communication and data consistency.
• Data Mastery: Manage the lifecycle of data across our platform. You will design efficient database schemas (SQL & NoSQL) and optimize query performance to handle high-throughput workloads.
• Operational Excellence: Embrace the "You Build It, You Run It" philosophy. You will own your services in production, implementing observability (logging, tracing, metrics) to detect issues before our customers do.
• API Craftsmanship: Build clean, secure, and well-documented APIs (REST/GraphQL) that serve as the contract between our backend services and the frontend experience.
• What You Bring
• Your Mindset:
• Builder's Mentality: You care about the "engine room." You take pride in writing code that is efficient, readable, and robust under pressure.
• System Thinker: You don't just solve the ticket; you consider how your changes affect the broader distributed system.
• Efficiency Driven: You view automation and modern tools as essential levers to deliver higher quality work faster.
• Your

Experience & qualifications

• Must Haves:
• 6+ years of experience building scalable backend services in a production environment.
• Backend Fluency: Strong proficiency in modern backend languages (Java, Python, or Node.js) and their ecosystems.
• Cloud Native: Experience building and deploying services on cloud platforms (AWS preferred), utilizing Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Database Expertise: Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB/Mongo).
• Modern Development Workflow: Proven experience leveraging coding assistants to accelerate development and testing.
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