
Senior Backend Developer
3rd Digital · May 2026 – Jul 2026
- Engineered production backend services in Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB supporting 2 customer-facing applications with secure authentication and role-based access.
- Architected JWT- and OAuth-based authentication and authorization workflows with role-based access control (RBAC) across 3 internal services.
- Integrated 2 third-party payment gateways and external APIs to support customer-facing payment and service workflows.
- Reduced a key API's response time from 15 seconds to 3 seconds, an 80% improvement, by optimizing MongoDB queries, aggregation pipelines, and indexes.
- Established API contracts with frontend and mobile teams, coordinating delivery of 5+ production-ready end-to-end features.
- Deployed centralized request validation, error handling, and Sentry-based monitoring, cutting unhandled production errors by 30%.


