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    "description": "<p><span><span>As a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Senior Backend Engineer</span> at </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Burai</span></span></span><span><span>, you will help architect and build the foundation that powers our platform</span><span>, </span><span>designing, implementing, and </span><span>operating</span><span> scalable backend services that support thousands of concurrent users.</span></span><span> </span></p>\n<p><span><span>In this role, </span><span>you’ll</span><span> work on </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>our backend</span><span>, integrations, and data synchronization</span></span></span><span><span>, and </span><span>you’ll</span><span> collaborate closely with frontend engineers, DevOps, and product managers to ensure our architecture scales while </span><span>maintaining</span><span> excellent performance, reliability, and security. You will also contribute to mentoring and up</span><span>leveling other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and sharing best practices.</span></span><span> </span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>What </span><span>you’ll</span><span> do</span></span></span><span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Build scalable backend services</span></span></span><span> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Design, implement, and </span><span>maintain</span><span> </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>scalable backend services</span></span></span><span><span> using </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Node.js</span></span></span><span><span> (TypeScript preferred)</span><span> and </span><span>Hasura</span><span>.</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Build and evolve </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>APIs</span></span></span><span><span> that are stable, well-documented, and </span><span>optimized</span><span> for performance (primarily REST</span><span> &amp;</span><span> </span><span>GraphQL</span><span> experience is a plus).</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Improve service reliability and scalability through good architecture patterns, strong error handling, and performance tuning.</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Contribute to backend architecture decisions (</span><span>microservices</span><span> boundaries, data flows, caching, queueing, integrations).</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Integrations &amp; data synchronization</span></span></span><span> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Implement and </span><span>maintain</span><span> integrations with </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Microsoft 365</span></span></span><span><span>, </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Google Workspace</span></span></span><span><span>, and </span><span>third</span><span>party</span><span> systems.</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Build reliable synchronization flows (idempotent processing, retries, rate-limit handling, consistency strategies).</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Work with event-driven patterns (queues, background workers) to decouple heavy processing from request/response paths.</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Integrate N8N </span><span>Embed</span><span> service in our core product</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Quality, ownership, and operational maturity</span></span></span><span> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Write clean, maintainable, testable code and follow engineering best 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