Senior Backend Engineer

At Babylon, a Senior Backend Engineer is primarily responsible for developing and deploying scalable backend features tailored for the decentralized systems landscape. This includes conducting code reviews that prioritize best practices, maintaining high-performance backend services with robust monitoring, and collaborating with a talented team of engineers and product designers to ensure security and reliability across all platforms.

To qualify for the Senior Backend Engineer role at Babylon, candidates should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, possess over 5 years of backend development experience, and have hands-on expertise with Golang. Familiarity with blockchain technologies, particularly Cosmos SDK, as well as experience in designing microservices within the AWS ecosystem, is preferred.

Babylon places immense importance on security and performance for its backend services. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will conduct thorough code reviews that prioritize readability and testing, maintain comprehensive visibility and error reporting, and leverage industry-standard monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus to ensure backend services operate at peak efficiency.

At Babylon, the work culture for a Senior Backend Engineer is open, inclusive, and highly collaborative. You will work alongside an elite team of scientists and engineers, where ideas are freely exchanged. The team atmosphere encourages ongoing learning, mentorship opportunities, and rapid adaptation to project needs, making it a dynamic place for growth and innovation.

Babylon offers significant growth opportunities for a Senior Backend Engineer, including the chance to mentor junior developers, lead technical discussions, and shape the architectural design of our systems. Engaging with world-class talent and being part of groundbreaking projects in the blockchain space provides a unique environment for both personal and professional development.

In your response, detail your work history, emphasizing the technologies you've used, particularly any experience with Golang and blockchain systems. Mention specific projects where you implemented solutions, showcasing your hands-on approach and your understanding of security and performance within decentralized architectures.

When discussing your approach to code reviews, emphasize the key best practices including readability, testing, documentation, and security. Explain how you provide constructive feedback while ensuring adherence to project standards, and highlight any tools you utilize to facilitate effective reviews.

Use this opportunity to outline a specific project that tested your skills. Describe the challenges faced, be it technical or team-related, and detail the strategies you employed to overcome these roadblocks. Focus on the learning outcomes and how they’ve shaped your professional development.

In your answer, detail your experience designing and implementing microservices architectures, highlighting specific projects that involved AWS services. Discuss how you ensured seamless integration and smooth deployment processes within these environments.

Discuss your understanding of security principles in backend development. Share examples of how you've implemented security measures in past projects, such as encrypted data communications, and secure APIs, and how you stay updated with the latest security practices in the industry.

Mention specific logging and monitoring tools you've used in past projects, like Grafana or Prometheus. Discuss how these tools helped you maintain performance and troubleshoot issues, emphasizing the importance of monitoring in keeping backend services running smoothly.

In your explanation, define distributed systems and discuss your experience with them. Illustrate your knowledge with examples of projects where you have utilized messaging systems like RabbitMQ and data stores such as MongoDB, highlighting the value of these systems in a blockchain context.

Discuss the significance of collaboration in your workflow, particularly in a cross-functional team. Describe your experiences in fostering communication among team members, and how collaborative efforts can lead to more robust and innovative solutions for backend challenges.

Discuss your philosophy on mentorship, emphasizing the importance of patience and clear communication. Share examples of how you've guided junior developers, whether through hands-on support, code reviews, or facilitating training sessions, to help them grow in their roles.

Express your passion for blockchain technology in your answer. Discuss how you see it reshaping industries and enabling innovation in decentralized finance, as well as your drive to contribute to this transformative space through your work as a Senior Backend Engineer.