Backend & Integration Engineer
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- Build secure backend services, APIs and durable data foundations
- Integrate enterprise systems with reliable synchronous and event-driven patterns
- Own security, reliability, delivery and technical leadership across integrations
Benchmark: DNS Solutions Senior Backend & Integration Engineer + Stripe API Platform / UI Platform + Salesforce MuleSoft Integration Architecture (Sep 2026) Market refresh: Node.js middleware and BFF services; REST/API contracts; enterprise and SaaS integrations; Salesforce/MuleSoft; Cloud SQL/BigQuery migrations; OWASP security; performance/reliability; CI/CD; architecture decisions; incident readiness; technical leadership.
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Build secure backend services, APIs and durable data foundations
Backend service architecture, BFF + API contracts
Coverage: Node.js / Backend Development / BFF / REST / API Design
SQL data modeling, cloud databases + migration
Coverage: SQL / Cloud SQL / BigQuery / Schema Design / Migration
Integrate enterprise systems with reliable synchronous and event-driven patterns
Salesforce, middleware + enterprise integration patterns
Coverage: Salesforce APIs / MuleSoft / Middleware / SaaS Integration
Events, webhooks, contract testing + compatibility
Coverage: Event-Driven Architecture / Webhooks / Contracts / Versioning
Own security, reliability, delivery and technical leadership across integrations
API security, performance + production reliability
Coverage: OWASP API Security / Auth / Rate Limits / Performance / SLOs
CI/CD, incident readiness + architecture leadership
Coverage: CI/CD / Release Engineering / Observability / Incident Response
Role-Readiness Proof / Capstone
Architect and implement a production backend/integration layer for a public digital product. Build a BFF or middleware service; publish versioned API contracts and schemas; integrate Salesforce plus an internal or SaaS system; design an event/webhook path with idempotency, retries and dead-letter handling; migrate or modernize a relational data store with rollback; implement authentication, authorization, rate limits and OWASP controls; create CI/CD quality gates; instrument latency, errors and SLOs; run a failure drill; and document ADRs, runbooks and an executive-ready architecture decision package.
Proof Rubric
- Demonstrate working, testable integration engineering: clean service boundaries
- stable and compatible API contracts
- secure credentials and authorization
- reliable sync and async patterns
- migration evidence with rollback
- actionable telemetry and SLOs
- safe release automation
- incident recovery
- and technical decisions that clearly explain scalability, security, maintainability and business tradeoffs