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Client: Photon
Position: Sr. Backend developer with API & Node.JS
Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite)
Duration: Contract or full time
The JD is exclusively focused on the Backend, specifically on designing and building robust APIs with Node.js. All front-end requirements like React.js and web markup have been removed, indicating the new role does not involve user interface development. Resilience Engineering: The entire concept of designing APIs to handle failures gracefully using techniques like circuit breakers, retry logic, and rate-limiting is new in the new JD (not there in the original JD) Advanced Observability: Knowledge of specific, industry-standard monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or New Relic is a core requirement in new JD that was not mentioned in original JD. Advanced API Security: the new JD specifies the need for expertise in security best practices like OAuth2, JWT tokens, and experience with API gateways. The candidates must possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, cloud-native infrastructure, and advanced security.