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Backend Engineer · Payments & Scalability
Summary
Architected a payment pipeline handling 10M+ monthly transactions at 99.98% uptime. Cut query latency 60% via optimization and Redis caching.
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer · PaymentCorp2020 — Present
- Designed an idempotent payment API (500 req/s, exactly-once); prevented $2.3M/yr duplicate charges
- Cut transaction query time 800ms → 180ms via composite indexes + Redis; conversion +2.1%
- Led monolith → microservices split; deploy time 45min → 8min
Backend Engineer · TechStaging2018 — 2020
- Built JWT + OAuth2 auth for 50K DAU with zero breaches in 2 years
- Added RabbitMQ async processing; heavy-op response 2.5s → 200ms
Skills
Node.js (Express), Python (Flask/Django), PostgreSQL (optimization, indexing), Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, REST design, Docker, Kubernetes, DataDog
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Why this works
- ✓Emphasize uptime/reliability (availability %, MTTR, SLA).
- ✓Quantify scale (req/s, data volume, p99 latency).
- ✓Show optimization with before/after numbers and the technique.
- ✓Include your monitoring/observability stack.