Capgemini

Senior Backend Platform Engineer

Capgemini
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1 day ago
Budapest, HungarySenior

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and support business-critical backend services built with Node.js, NestJS, and Redis.
  • Investigate complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues through resolution.
  • Analyze logs, traces, monitoring data, and application behavior to diagnose system anomalies.
  • Troubleshoot distributed systems, microservices, integrations, and high-volume data flows.
  • Support and optimize Redis workloads, caching strategies, and platform performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on reliability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and communicate incident impact and resolution plans to stakeholders.
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing, observability improvements, and platform stability initiatives.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, and Redis.
  • Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting microservice-based architectures.
  • Proven experience supporting production systems and managing live incidents.
  • Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with REST API integrations and distributed systems.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably GCP.
  • Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
  • Ability to work independently in complex environments with limited documentation.
  • Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Nice-to-have experience with Terraform, BigQuery, event-driven architectures, CI/CD pipelines, conversational platforms or chatbot ecosystems, AI-enabled platforms and integrations, or React.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Budapest with one day per week onsite and flexible hours.
  • Access to an education library with more than 250,000 courses, certifications, and learning resources.
  • Access to a global Well-Being Hub supporting work-life balance, working hours, and network growth.
  • Employee referral bonus and company shares program.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendSite Reliability
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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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