Backend Engineer II

Toters•Geraldine, AL

107d

About The Position

Toters is an on-demand e-commerce and delivery platform focused on making it convenient for customers to get what they need in their city. Its product and engineering teams build customer experiences and improve internal systems to deliver faster and at lower cost. As a Backend Engineer, you will own the end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large features and components, working autonomously within team-aligned boundaries. You will design and implement reliable, scalable backend systems, improve team efficiency, mentor peers, and contribute to measurable product and business outcomes. This is a strong individual contributor role involving ownership of complex work, bottleneck removal, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-quality delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
At least 3 years of hands-on software development experience; backend experience with PHP/Laravel is preferred.
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
Ability to design scalable modules, data models, and interfaces; experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including complex queries and schema design.
Advanced hands-on experience with Redis caching, queuing systems, Git branching strategies, and CI/CD practices.
Experience owning production services, writing comprehensive tests, implementing monitoring and alerting, and resolving incidents independently.
Track record of delivering stable, performant features that affect team or product metrics with minimal post-launch issues.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including breaking down work, estimating realistically, identifying risks, and making informed trade-offs.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, including explaining technical concepts, writing clear specifications and documentation, giving constructive feedback, and building relationships across roles.
Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira.
Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and serverless or containerized architectures.
Previous work in high-traffic e-commerce, food delivery, or on-demand marketplaces.
Exposure to microservices, event-driven systems, or performance optimization at scale.
Experience ensuring compliance with privacy or KYC regulations in collaboration with product or legal teams.
Arabic is a strong plus; fluency in Arabic and English is noted, and French is a bonus.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large features and system components over timelines of one to three months.
Make technical decisions within your scope and manage risks, dependencies, and timelines with minimal oversight; escalate long-term or cross-team trade-offs.
Independently design modules or feature areas, including responsibilities, boundaries, interfaces, data models, and contracts for other teams.
Break features into phases, estimate work based on dependencies, and deliver stable, production-ready code that handles edge cases and prevents regressions.
Improve team efficiency through automation, conventions, monitoring and alerting, tooling, onboarding improvements, bottleneck removal, and documentation of patterns and runbooks.
Write maintainable, well-tested code, including unit and integration tests, and refactor opportunistically while delivering features.
Conduct thorough code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and troubleshoot incidents in your domain using monitoring signals.
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, QA, DevOps, and other functions to resolve ambiguity, align on decisions, and keep delivery unblocked.
Provide informal mentorship and support peers through pairing and guidance.
Surface ambiguity early, explain technical reasoning, and contribute to team-level architecture and design discussions.
Represent engineering values in interviews, buddy new hires, and help maintain a healthy, high-performing team culture.