Career path

Backend Engineer

Also known as BE

A practical progression path for building APIs, services, databases, and scalable backend systems.

Backend FoundationsJunior BE

Build reliable foundations and enough context to contribute safely with guidance.

Own features and services with solid implementation judgment across neighboring layers.

Design, evolve, and debug systems across boundaries with strong tradeoff awareness.

Understand how clients and servers communicate through stable service interfaces.

Store, query, and reason about persistent data correctly and efficiently.

Organize service code and boundaries so backend systems can evolve safely.

Design backend systems that handle scale, latency, state, and failure.

Understand how backend services are packaged, deployed, observed, and operated.

Build the capabilities needed for this area.

Build the capabilities needed for this area.