[Remote] Remote | Backend Engineering Consultant — $60–$120/hour
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG is offering a specialized part-time consulting opportunity for experienced backend engineering professionals. The role focuses on backend engineering evaluation, technical scenario review, systems design, and API architecture, requiring strong expertise in various backend technologies and practices.
Responsibilities
- Review backend engineering tasks involving API design, service architecture, authentication flows, request handling, and integration patterns
- Assess REST, GraphQL, RPC, or comparable API scenarios for clarity, correctness, maintainability, and practical relevance
- Evaluate backend logic, service boundaries, data flow, error handling, and production-readiness
- Provide structured feedback on technical accuracy, implementation quality, and engineering judgment
- Review scenarios involving microservices architecture, distributed services, event-driven systems, queues, messaging patterns, and service communication
- Evaluate system design choices related to scalability, latency, consistency, reliability, fault tolerance, and observability
- Identify architectural gaps, unclear assumptions, or weak technical reasoning in backend system scenarios
- Contribute practical expertise on designing and maintaining scalable backend platforms
- Assess database schema design, indexing strategies, query performance, data modelling, and transactional behaviour
- Review tasks involving SQL, NoSQL, caching layers, replication, sharding, and backend data access patterns
- Evaluate trade-offs related to performance, consistency, storage design, and long-term maintainability
- Provide feedback on database architecture and optimisation decisions based on real-world backend experience
- Support the development, review, or refinement of backend engineering tasks and technical deliverables
- Provide clear explanations and feedback based on hands-on engineering experience
- Review technical materials for accuracy, completeness, and practical usability
- Help ensure outputs reflect real-world backend engineering standards and production system expectations
Skills
- Professional experience in Backend Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related technical roles
- Hands-on experience building APIs, backend services, microservices, databases, and distributed systems
- Strong familiarity with server-side languages such as Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, or comparable technologies
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, query optimisation, caching, message queues, and service integration patterns
- Ability to evaluate technical workflows, identify practical issues, and explain backend engineering reasoning clearly
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working independently in a remote, project-based environment
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is helpful
- Equivalent professional experience in backend engineering, software architecture, distributed systems, or production software development is also highly relevant
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or cloud-native backend systems
- Background in systems design, high-scale applications, distributed databases, event-driven architecture, or backend reliability
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, or similar technologies
- Experience creating technical documentation, evaluating engineering tasks, mentoring developers, or reviewing software architecture
Benefits
- Flexible, remote consulting work aligned with your backend engineering expertise
- Opportunity to contribute to technical projects involving real-world software architecture, APIs, databases, and distributed systems
- Suitable for experienced professionals who enjoy technical evaluation, structured feedback, and practical engineering problem-solving
- Project-based work that can align with part-time availability and remote schedules
- Independent contractor engagement
- Fully remote and flexible scheduling
- Part-time, project-based availability
- Expected commitment may vary by project, with many opportunities ranging from approximately 15–30 hours per week
- Payments are made weekly via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
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