Staff Backend Engineer (Unit Intercity) – Kazakhstan
Technical owner of the entire unit’s backend: holds the end-to-end picture of services, gates teams’ key decisions, personally tackles the hardest problems, and proactively raises the bar. 2026 focus: product consolidation and the AI-First / Spec-First shift.
- Own the unit’s backend as a whole – coherence, reliability, and evolution of all services, not just your team’s.
- Validate and approve teams’ technical decisions (ADRs/RFCs, API contracts); act as the final backend gate.
- Proactively propose platform-level solutions where teams see only a local fix; turn recurring incidents into systemic fixes.
- Audit the backend (tech debt, performance, reliability, security) and drive the improvement plan to production.
- Write production code in the most critical areas
- Take the hardest bugs and incidents; see post-mortem action items through to implementation.
- Mentor seniors and tech leads, set standards, and drive Spec-First and CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md quality.
- Designing distributed high-load systems – microservices, event-driven (Kafka), API design; strong systems thinking and coupling/cohesion judgment; ADRs and trade-off analysis.
- Expert in at least one production language Go; databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, caching (Redis), concurrency under load.
- Observability (Prometheus/Grafana), SRE practices, fault tolerance, deployment strategies (canary, feature flags).
- OWASP, authn/authz; antifraud as a backend problem – rate limiting, attestation, request signing, mTLS, geo-spoofing protection.
- Latency, local regulation, data privacy (GDPR/LGPD).
- Hands-on AI-assisted development (Claude Code) and a Spec-First mindset.
- Stable salary, official employment.
- Health insurance.
- Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
- Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions.
- Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
- Discount club membership.
- Diverse internal training programs.
- Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
- All necessary work equipment.
