[Remote] Lead Backend Developer / Remote EST/CST No PST or MST

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms. The role focuses on hands-on Node.js and TypeScript backend development, cloud-native applications, system reliability, and ownership of enterprise-scale production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale the large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise fulfillment platforms
• Develop backend systems with Node.js and TypeScript
• Design and develop large-scale distributed backend systems
• Design and develop REST APIs
• Develop microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Develop asynchronous and event-driven architectures
• Apply distributed-systems concepts, including scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, idempotency, retry strategies, eventual consistency, service-to-service communication, and failure recovery
• Develop clean, maintainable, well-tested production code
• Support and troubleshoot production applications
• Ensure application reliability, resilience, and observability
• Make sound engineering decisions within an established architecture
• Operate effectively when requirements are incomplete or ambiguous
• Communicate across engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders

Skills

• **8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience**
• Strong and recent **Node.js** backend development experience
• Strong **TypeScript** development experience
• Experience designing and developing **large-scale distributed backend systems**
• Meaningful, recent hands-on **Microsoft Azure** experience
• Strong experience designing and developing **REST APIs**
• Experience with **microservices and service-oriented architectures**
• Experience with asynchronous and **event-driven architectures**
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including:
• Scalability
• High availability
• Fault tolerance
• Idempotency
• Retry strategies
• Eventual consistency
• Service-to-service communication
• Failure recovery
• Strong experience with **Docker and Kubernetes**
• Experience developing clean, maintainable, well-tested production code
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting production applications
• Strong understanding of application reliability, resilience, and observability
• Ability to make sound engineering decisions within an established architecture
• Ability to operate effectively when requirements are incomplete or ambiguous
• Strong communication skills across engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders
• **Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)**
• **Azure Service Bus**
• **Azure Functions**
• Cosmos DB
• Helm
• GitHub Actions
• OpenTelemetry
• Dynatrace
• CI/CD pipeline development
• Distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
• Experience with high-volume or high-transaction enterprise platforms
• Experience with fulfillment, order-processing, logistics, commerce, or similar distributed backend platforms

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement, limited to EST/CST time zones (no PST or MST)

Company Overview

Dice offers a marketplace that enables direct connections between recruiters and technologists. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.uk.dice.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Dice has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.