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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
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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
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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.