Senior Backend Engineer

Role & Responsibilities

We are looking for a hands-on Camunda Developer with strong experience in workflow orchestration and backend development. The ideal candidate should be able to design, build, and optimize end-to-end business processes using Camunda (preferably Camunda 8) and work closely with engineering and business teams to implement scalable and resilient workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into BPMN workflows using Camunda (preferably Camunda 8)
• Design and implement end-to-end process orchestration across systems
• Build and manage service integrations (REST APIs, event-driven systems)
• Develop and maintain Zeebe workers / microservices (Python)
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine workflows and handle edge cases
• Implement error handling, retries, and compensation mechanisms
• Analyse and improve workflows for scalability, reliability, and performance
• Ensure data consistency and idempotent process execution
• Work with cross-functional teams including data and analytics for process observability

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Senior Camunda Developer / Workflow Orchestration Engineer Profiles
• Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 4+years of hands-on experience in backend development and workflow systems, demonstrable through production-grade work on business process automation or backend service development.
• Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience with Camunda and BPMN 2.0, including designing, building, and deploying end-to-end business process workflows in production.
• Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have hands-on experience with Zeebe workers and the Camunda 8 stack, built and maintained as part of real orchestration systems.
• Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong production-level coding skills in Python, used for building and maintaining Zeebe workers and microservices.
• Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing and working within microservices architecture and distributed systems, with clear understanding of service decomposition, inter-service communication, and distributed system failure modes.
• Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have hands-on experience building and consuming REST APIs and working with event-driven systems (message brokers, pub/sub, event streams).
• Mandatory (Skills) – Must have strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production workflow environments, with specific examples of resolving complex issues such as stuck processes, race conditions, or data inconsistency bugs.
• Preferred (Experience 1) – Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure) and experience with data platforms (e.g., Snowflake).
• Preferred (Experience 2) – Understanding of finance-related workflows (billing, reconciliation, etc.).

Senior Backend Developer /Backend Developer

Hiring for the position of Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Role

●        Create and consume restful APIs

●        Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications

●        Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules

●        Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation

●        Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise

●        Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge

●        Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

●        Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience

Task:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications.
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API.
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support.
• Refactor, optimize, and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale.
• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as a liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.

We wish:

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 4 year(s)
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Knowledge of API’s, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap

Desirable:

• Should have problem-solving skills
• Good experience in oops concept
• Good experience  in MVC
• Good experience in jQuery & JavaScript
• Learn & work on new technologies/ frameworks.
• Knowledge of bootstrap

We Offer:

• Freedom to realize your ideas & individual career & development opportunities.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events that cannot be forgotten, and fun at the workplace with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

• PHP Web Development experience - Core PHP and PHP frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {such as Laravel, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack}
• Should have positive and adaptive behavior. Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding client requirements & functional specifications
• Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications
• Ensuring foolproof performance of the deliverable
• Must be proficient in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XML
• Experience with Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Magento would be added advantage.
• Must have the capacity to work independently and as a part of a team
• Eager to learn new web technologies

• Working with the product team to develop new features focused on improving the user experience
• Improving existing features and working on streamlining client implementations through improved tools
• Improving our technical architecture and building out a continuous integration pipeline
• Modernizing our front-end in new frameworks
• Everything else - our team is small and you'll likely be involved in almost every tech-related thing going on
  
  

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building consumer-facing web apps
• You are interested in the full-stack opportunity and love building a feature from start to finish
• Self-starter with a deep interest in tech - we want someone who will come in with opinions, and shape our engineering practices and decisions for the better
• An eye for design - you'll have an important role in making the product look great
• Believe in our mission and love the idea of working in education to help students succeed
  
  

Technologies you'll work with:

• NodeJS, http://sails.js/">Sails.JS
• http://react.js/">React.js, Redux, Redux-Saga
• Kubernetes, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
• Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.

Benefits

• Remote Option - You can work from any location of your choice
• Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
• Competitive Salary
• Friendly atmosphere
• Flexible paid vacation policy