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Your target role
Typical experience for this role: 3-5+ years
Role
Senior Backend Engineer
Distributed Systems & Enterprise APIs
What the role involves

Architect and scale fault-tolerant distributed backends, asynchronous messaging (Kafka), and ACID relational databases.

Skill match

You have solved problems in 0 of this role's 7 key skills.

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Key skills

Node.jsNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
TypeScriptNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
PostgreSQLNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
KafkaNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
System DesignNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
RedisNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice
DockerNot practiced yet
No solved problems in this topic yetPractice

Learning path for Senior Backend Engineer

Suggested topics to study, in order.

1

Concurrency & Worker Queues

Master Node.js cluster/worker threads and Redis BullMQ pipelines.

2

Database Internals & Partitioning

Study PostgreSQL B-Tree indexes, WAL, and horizontal table partitioning.

3

Distributed Systems & Consensus

Understand Raft consensus, Kafka replication, and distributed transaction isolation.