Interview
Questions

How do you approach technical debt in backend systems?

Tell me about a database schema decision that had long-term implications.

Describe your approach to designing APIs that will be consumed by other teams.

How do you ensure security and data privacy in the systems you build?

Tell me about a time you had to scale a system to handle significantly more traffic.

Tell me about a system you designed that had to handle high traffic or scale. What were your key design decisions?

Describe a time when you had to debug a complex production issue. How did you approach it?

Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult trade-off between technical debt and shipping a feature.

Describe a situation where you had to work with a poorly documented or legacy codebase. How did you navigate it?

Tell me about a time when you mentored a junior engineer or helped improve your teams engineering practices.

Describe a time when you disagreed with a technical decision. How did you handle it?

Tell me about a performance optimization you implemented. What was the impact?