Staff Backend Engineer (Unit Intercity)

Company: inDrive
Location: Almaty, Almaty Special District
Type: hybrid
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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Technical owner of the entire unit's backend: holds the end-to-end picture of services, gates teams' key decisions, personally tackles the hardest problems, and proactively raises the bar. 2026 focus: product consolidation and the AI-First / Spec-First shift.
  • Own the unit's backend as a whole - coherence, reliability, and evolution of all services, not just your team's.
  • Validate and approve teams' technical decisions (ADRs/RFCs, API contracts); act as the final backend gate.
  • Proactively propose platform-level solutions where teams see only a local fix; turn recurring incidents into systemic fixes.
  • Audit the backend (tech debt, performance, reliability, security) and drive the improvement plan to production.
  • Write production code in the most critical areas
  • Take the hardest bugs and incidents; see post-mortem action items through to implementation.
  • Mentor seniors and tech leads, set standards, and drive Spec-First and CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md quality.

  • Designing distributed high-load systems - microservices, event-driven (Kafka), API design; strong systems thinking and coupling/cohesion judgment; ADRs and trade-off analysis.
  • Expert in at least one production language Go; databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, caching (Redis), concurrency under load.
  • Observability (Prometheus/Grafana), SRE practices, fault tolerance, deployment strategies (canary, feature flags).
  • OWASP, authn/authz; antifraud as a backend problem - rate limiting, attestation, request signing, mTLS, geo-spoofing protection.
  • Latency, local regulation, data privacy (GDPR/LGPD).
  • Hands-on AI-assisted development (Claude Code) and a Spec-First mindset.

  • Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
  • Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
  • Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.
  • Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.
  • Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.
  • Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.
Final benefits may vary depending on the location.


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