Senior Backend Engineer

Description

At Tikal, seniority isn't the end of learning - it's the start of your next leap.

Here, you define your tech journey: choose the technologies you want to master, set your own growth path, and gain the hands-on experience to become a Backend Tech Lead.

Work with top-tier companies, tackle complex engineering challenges, and leave your mark on large-scale systems - all while staying at the forefront of technology.

This is a hybrid position.

What You'll Do

• Architect, design, and build high-performance, scalable backend systems.
• Work with advanced algorithms, data structures & distributed computing.
• Design and implement robust, secure APIs.
• Use best practices to ensure flexibility, extensibility, and maintainability.
• Develop SQL & NoSQL persistence solutions with optimal data modeling & performance.
• Build and scale cloud-based infrastructures.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Backend engineering
• 5 years Python experience or at least 2+ years of Python experience and 3+ years with Java /nodejs.
• Proven experience working in an AI-assisted development environment, defining high-level technical goals and leveraging autonomous AI agents (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Devin-style tools) to execute multi-file implementations, while maintaining ownership of architecture, design decisions, code quality, and final validation.
• Experience with Microservices, distributed processing & messaging.
• Cloud expertise: AWS/, GCP/ Azure
• Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Druid, Redis).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Self-driven, proactive, and passionate about doing things the right way.

Sounds like your next challenge? Let's talk.