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Back-End Engineer

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13 lessons3 levels1 capstone project
  • Build secure APIs and durable persistence with clear service contracts
  • Design distributed, event-driven systems that survive retries, partial failure and scale
  • Own security, performance, reliability and operations for production backend services

Benchmark: Stripe API Platform + Anthropic Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend (current Sep 2026) + distributed-systems and API engineering practices from leading cloud platforms Market refresh: service boundaries, API contracts, SQL/NoSQL persistence, auth, event-driven systems, caching, distributed consistency, testing, observability, security, CI/CD, incident response and scalable reliability.

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Enrichment

BASIC

Build secure APIs and durable persistence with clear service contracts

API/service design + backend implementation

Coverage: REST / RPC / Service Boundaries / Validation / Versioning / Python-Go-Node

Persistence, data models + system design

Coverage: SQL / NoSQL / Transactions / Caching / Storage Tradeoffs / Data Models

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