Backend Developer

Ascendion

📍 Maynila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Full-time Other-General Posted March 03, 2026

Job Description

Ascendion is a global digital engineering company delivering innovative technology solutions to drive business transformation. We partner with leading organizations to build modern, scalable, and high-performing systems.

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer (NodeJS / Java) to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience building backend services from scratch, working with microservices architecture, and developing highly scalable, production-grade systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services using NodeJS and/or Java
  • Build and implement microservices from the ground up, following best practices and design principles
  • Develop backend-focused solutions, spending 70–80% of time on backend development
  • Implement and manage caching solutions such as Redis or MemCache to improve performance
  • Work with messaging and queue systems like Kafka or AWS SQS ...