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Senior Backend Engineer

12 candidates · 3 shortlisted

3 Strong Hire · 4 Interview · 3 Review · 2 Pass

7 candidates

Sarah Chen

9 years · Singapore

STRONG HIRE
96% matchEvidence confidence: High
  • Designed and operated multi-region services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda) handling 2M+ requests per day.
  • Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
  • Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
  • Designed a distributed job scheduler with leader election and at-least-once delivery guarantees.

Potential concern:No evidence of fintech experience

Verify in interview

  • Distributed systems design trade-offs
  • Kubernetes operational depth
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Michael Lee

8 years · Toronto, Canada

STRONG HIRE
92% matchEvidence confidence: High
  • Led a migration from on-premise servers to AWS and reduced infrastructure cost by 30%.
  • Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
  • Tuned PostgreSQL indexes and table partitioning, cutting p95 query latency by 60%.
  • Designed a distributed job scheduler with leader election and at-least-once delivery guarantees.

Potential concern:Event-driven ownership is mostly operational

Verify in interview

  • Event design and delivery guarantees
  • Leading platform teams
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Priya Nair

7 years · Berlin, Germany

STRONG HIRE
90% matchEvidence confidence: High
  • Designed and operated multi-region services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda) handling 2M+ requests per day.
  • Developed a Node.js event-processing worker that handled 500,000 jobs per hour.
  • Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
  • Built a sharded, horizontally scalable service that survived two region failures with no data loss.

Potential concern:No evidence of infrastructure-as-code ownership

Verify in interview

  • Infrastructure-as-code ownership
  • PostgreSQL scaling
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Daniel Okafor

11 years · London, United Kingdom

INTERVIEW
84% matchEvidence confidence: High
  • Designed and operated multi-region services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda) handling 2M+ requests per day.
  • Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
  • Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
  • Built a sharded, horizontally scalable service that survived two region failures with no data loss.

Potential concern:Kubernetes ownership is unclear

Verify in interview

  • Kubernetes cluster ownership
  • Leadership at scale
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Elena Petrova

6 years · Warsaw, Poland

INTERVIEW
71% matchEvidence confidence: Medium
  • Led a migration from on-premise servers to AWS and reduced infrastructure cost by 30%.
  • Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
  • Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
  • Managed a Kubernetes cluster and wrote the deployment pipeline for twelve microservices.

Potential concern:No evidence of distributed-systems design

Verify in interview

  • Distributed systems fundamentals
  • Event-driven design
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Tom Becker

9 years · Amsterdam, Netherlands

INTERVIEW
82% matchEvidence confidence: Medium
  • Led a migration from on-premise servers to AWS and reduced infrastructure cost by 30%.
  • Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
  • Tuned PostgreSQL indexes and table partitioning, cutting p95 query latency by 60%.
  • Designed a distributed job scheduler with leader election and at-least-once delivery guarantees.

Potential concern:No evidence of Kubernetes experience

Verify in interview

  • Kubernetes operational experience
  • Incident response
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Aisha Rahman

5 years · Remote (UTC+1)

INTERVIEW
73% matchEvidence confidence: Medium
  • Designed and operated multi-region services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda) handling 2M+ requests per day.
  • Developed a Node.js event-processing worker that handled 500,000 jobs per hour.
  • Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
  • Built a sharded, horizontally scalable service that survived two region failures with no data loss.

Potential concern:Distributed-systems experience is partial

Verify in interview

  • Distributed systems design
  • Testing event-driven flows
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Compare your shortlist

The criteria each candidate has already been assessed against.

 Sarah ChenMichael LeePriya Nair
Match96% match92% match90% match
DecisionSTRONG HIRESTRONG HIRESTRONG HIRE
AWSStrong evidenceStrong evidenceStrong evidence
Node.jsStrong evidenceStrong evidenceStrong evidence
PostgreSQLStrong evidenceStrong evidenceMeets
Distributed systemsStrong evidenceMeetsStrong evidence

Example candidate detail

The same analysis your own candidates get, generated in advance for this sample.

Sarah Chen

9 years · Singapore

Analysis complete
STRONG HIRE96% matchEvidence confidence: High

Strongest overall match: nine years of backend engineering with deep AWS, Node.js and PostgreSQL ownership, including multi-region services handling millions of requests a day.

Hiring criteria

Must-have

  • AWSStrong evidence

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

  • Node.jsStrong evidence

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

  • PostgreSQLStrong evidence

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

  • Distributed systemsStrong evidence

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

Strongly preferred

  • KubernetesMeets

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

  • TypeScriptStrong evidence

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

  • Event-driven architectureMeets

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

Nice to have

  • Fintech domain experienceNo evidence

    No evidence found in the resume.

  • Terraform / IaCPartial

    1 supporting quote — see Evidence

Evidence

AWS

Designed and operated multi-region services on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda) handling 2M+ requests per day.
Resume · Experience · 2021–2025Evidence confidence: High

Node.js

Built and maintained Node.js services in production, exposing public APIs with Express and Fastify.
Resume · Experience · 2020–2025Evidence confidence: High

PostgreSQL

Owned PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for a dataset of 200M rows.
Resume · Experience · 2019–2025Evidence confidence: High

Distributed systems

Designed a distributed job scheduler with leader election and at-least-once delivery guarantees.
Resume · Experience · 2022–2025Evidence confidence: High

Kubernetes

Ran production workloads on Kubernetes, including Helm charts, autoscaling and rolling upgrades.
Resume · Experience · 2021–2025Evidence confidence: High

TypeScript

Wrote the company's type-safe backend services in TypeScript with strict compiler settings.
Resume · Experience · 2020–2025Evidence confidence: High

Event-driven architecture

Built an event-sourced order pipeline using SQS and idempotent consumers.
Resume · Experience · 2021–2024Evidence confidence: High

Terraform / IaC

Managed all cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform and reviewed changes through pull requests.
Resume · Experience · 2021–2025Evidence confidence: MediumIndirect evidence

Potential concerns

  • No evidence of fintech experience

    Low

    The resume does not mention payments, lending or regulated data.

    This may not matter if domain knowledge can be picked up on the job.

Why this decision?

Score 96% against the confirmed criteria — 4 of 4 must-have requirements matched, with high evidence confidence. Decision: STRONG HIRE.