Back-End Developer IV at Kentro · Remote (United States)
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.NET
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AWS
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Azure
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C#
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Education
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The ad says: “Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline”
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8–10 years of progressive back-end development experience, including demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or a large syst
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Deep experience designing and operating enterprise APIs: REST, API contracts and versioning, gateway and management tooling, and API securit
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Hands-on expertise with messaging and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, SQS/SNS, or equivalent), including production experie
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Proven experience leading complex system integrations across heterogeneous legacy and modern systems
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Demonstrated experience decomposing monolithic applications into microservices, including the migration strategy — not just greenfield servi
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Strong database expertise across relational and non-relational stores: data modeling, query performance, transactions, and large-scale data
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Microservices is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Security is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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