Backend Engineer

Backend Developer Job description
The Backend Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and secure backend services that power digital products. The role requires expertise in software engineering principles, modern development practices, and cloud native architecture. Engineers must work in an agile, DevOps driven environment, ensuring high software quality, reliability, and security.
Collaborate with Business Analysts (BA) and Product Managers to refine user stories and translate them into technical requirements.
Work with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers to ensure automated test coverage and proactively fix bugs and defects. Partner with DevOps teams to automate build, deployment, and monitoring pipelines.
Develop and maintain scalable, high performance APIs and backend services in a cloud native environment.
Conduct code reviews, enforce security best practices, and ensure software craftsmanship standards.
Design and document system architecture, ensuring compliance with government security and regulatory standards.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to pitch ideas and influence stakeholders.
Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) with strong collaboration skills Technical Skills
Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines.
Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow, trunk based development).
Proficiency in modern backend programming languages: Java, Springboot, Kotlin, Node.js
Experience with cloud platforms altleast AWS, Azure
Strong understanding of RESTful APIs
Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven patterns
Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
Knowledge of database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis

**About Virtusa**

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.