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A Backend Developer resume that speaks the language of systems.

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Achievement bullets for a Backend Developer

Designed and implemented a REST API serving 40M daily requests with 99.98% uptime and sub-20ms median latency.
Migrated a monolithic billing service to event-driven microservices (Kafka, Go), reducing processing latency by 70%.
Optimised PostgreSQL query plans and introduced read replicas, cutting database CPU by 55% during peak load.
Implemented idempotent payment processing with distributed locking, eliminating a class of double-charge bugs under retries.

Skills to highlight

Top skills for a Backend Developer

Go / Python / Node.jsREST & gRPC APIsPostgreSQL / RedisKafka / RabbitMQMicroservicesDocker / KubernetesSystem DesignTesting & Observability

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