ShipDevs supports fast-moving teams by connecting them with vetted remote professionals across technical and operational roles.
We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer who can take ownership of building reliable, secure, and scalable server-side systems for modern web applications. You will work closely with frontend developers, product teams, and other engineers to design APIs, manage databases, and build the core logic that powers real products.
This role is for someone who can understand business requirements, translate them into clean backend architecture, and write production-ready code that performs well under real-world usage. You should be comfortable working with existing systems, improving backend quality, fixing bugs, and building features that are stable, maintainable, and secure.
You will not only write APIs. You will think through data models, authentication, authorization, performance, error handling, integrations, background jobs, and long-term maintainability. You will be expected to make practical technical decisions, identify backend risks early, and build solutions that other developers can confidently work with.
This is a hands-on backend engineering role. You should be able to take features from requirement to implementation, troubleshoot production issues, optimize database queries, and collaborate with frontend teams to deliver complete product functionality.
The ideal candidate has strong backend development experience, solid database knowledge, API design skills, and the ability to build dependable systems for serious products.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
- Design, develop, and document REST APIs or GraphQL APIs for web and mobile applications.
- Work with databases to design schemas, write queries, and optimize performance.
- Implement authentication, authorization, validation, and secure backend workflows.
- Integrate third-party services, payment systems, CRMs, communication tools, and external APIs.
- Debug backend issues, fix bugs, and improve application reliability.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured server-side code.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure smooth API integration.
- Improve backend performance, scalability, logging, and error handling.
- Support deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of backend services.
Candidate Requirements
- Strong experience with backend development using Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, or similar technologies.
- Experience building and maintaining production APIs.
- Good understanding of database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar.
- Ability to design efficient data models and optimize database queries.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, and backend security best practices.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, debugging, and collaborative development workflows.
- Understanding of backend architecture, queues, caching, background jobs, and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues with confidence and structure.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to code quality, reliability, and maintainability.
Experience Level
Mid to senior level, typically 3+ years in backend development or server-side engineering roles.
Work Type
Full-time Remote
Benefits / Why Join Us
- Work remotely with global teams and international clients
- Long-term contract opportunities with stable workloads
- Competitive compensation based on skills and experience
- Flexible and remote-first work environment
- Opportunity to work on real products and business operations
- Grow your experience with fast-moving companies and modern teams
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