Senior / Lead Backend Developer

Responsibilities: • Design and development of .NET services: application business logic, payment and orchestration flows • Ensuring reliability: idempotency, retries, deduplication, outbox/Saga, failure handling • Ensuring security: secrets storage/KMS, access control, secure configuration and deployment • Integration of external APIs: correct handling of headers/cookies, formats (multipart/x-www-form-urlencoded, JSON), compliance with specifications • Database design (PostgreSQL): schemas, indexes, migrations, query and lock optimization • Work on performance and scalability: profiling, reducing p95/p99, caching, rate limiting • Team management (2-4 developers): task distribution, code reviews, mentoring, onboarding new hires, assisting in resolving blockers • Building an effective development process, implementing code and architecture standards, improving CI/CD and testing practices within the team • Communication with adjacent teams and stakeholders: coordination of integrations with product, analytics, QA, DevOps, technical solution alignment • Regular analysis of problems (incidents, long releases, code disputes), initiation and control of technical improvements

Requirements: • 5+ years of experience and at least 1–2 years in a Tech Lead / Team Lead role (or a clear desire and readiness to take on leadership tasks with a strong technical background) • Experience with code reviews and mentoring: ability to provide constructive feedback • Deep knowledge of network protocols and web integrations: HTTP/2, CORS, cookies, multipart/x-www-form-urlencoded • Cryptography and formats: Ed25519, SHA-256, working with binary protocols and byte prefixes • Databases: PostgreSQL, schema design, indexes, transactions, migrations (EF Core) • Microservices and integrations: gRPC/Protobuf, queues/brokers (RabbitMQ/Kafka), Outbox and idempotency patterns • Reliability under load: retries, timeouts, polling, limiters, circuit breaker • Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, structured logging, tracing (OpenTelemetry) • Containerization and CI/CD: Docker, basic deployment and configuration practices • Clean code and architecture: SOLID, unit and integration tests, code reviews, API design

Will be a plus: • Experience with anti-bot mechanisms (e.g., Cloudflare: headers, sessions) • Knowledge of DDD and event-driven approaches, Saga/orchestrators, managing transactional boundaries in distributed systems • Experience in payment security and anti-fraud, KMS/Secret management • Experience with property-based testing, load and performance testing, benchmarks

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