Backend Engineer

Red Cloud Consulting is a global business and technology consulting firm supporting clients across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. For more than two decades, Red Cloud has partnered with high-growth mid-market companies and global enterprises to solve complex business and operational challenges—leveraging modern data platforms, artificial intelligence, and secure digital and physical infrastructure to drive smarter decisions and scalable outcomes.

Anchored in a foundation of integrity-based consulting, Red Cloud brings senior-level experts together with client teams to deliver durable, high-impact solutions across Data & AI, Delivery Excellence, Digital Solutions, Marketing & Sales, Privacy, Security, Data Center and Critical Infrastructure Security, and Strategy & Transformation. Recognized for both performance and culture, Red Cloud has been named a top place to work and a fast-growing firm, and was recognized by Consulting Magazine as a 2024 Leader in Technology Consulting.

Red Cloud seeks a Senior Backend Framework Engineer to support immediate client operations. We are seeking an experienced and collaborative Senior Backend Framework Engineer to help design, build and maintain a modern server side platform that supports multiple internal and consumer facing products.

This role plays a critical part in developing scalable microservices APIs and shared backend services that also power data driven and AI enabled systems. The ideal candidate is passionate about backend architecture, system reliability and developer experience and thrives in a highly collaborative engineering environment.

This role is part of the Engineering team and works closely with an Engineering Lead and cross functional partner.

• Design, develop, test and maintain scalable backend services and APIs primarily using Node.js and Type Script with a transition toward Go as the primary language.
• Build and maintain core enterprise level backend frameworks and shared services used across multiple product lines with strong emphasis on versioning, documentation and reusability.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions to improve scalability, stability, security and performance across distributed systems.
• Develop high performance and secure server side logic with a strong focus on data integrity and fault tolerance.
• Optimize backend workflows and database interactions to support large scale usage and low latency requirements.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure efficient API design and seamless data exchange.
• Participate in and lead code reviews to maintain consistent quality standards and backend best practices.
• Support AI related integrations including service wrappers that expose business logic to AI tooling and agents.
• Work with product design, QA and engineering leadership to deliver core features from concept through production.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and scalable infrastructure improvements.
• Partner with QA to define and execute testing strategies including unit, integration, load and automation testing.
• Provide support to internal build teams by helping integrate, troubleshoot and evolve shared services and libraries.

• Five or more years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and SQL.
• Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and microservices based architectures.
• Strong understanding of backend performance optimization, security principles and data modeling.
• Experience working with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL, Cloud SQL or Mongo
  
  DB.
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Professional experience with Go is strongly preferred and most new development will be in Go.
• Experience with Python is a plus.
• Background in Java or C Sharp is acceptable in place of Go experience.
• Familiarity with cloud native services including managed databases, analytics platforms and serverless tooling.
• Experience with CI and CD pipelines, automated testing and modern deployment…