Backend Engineer — Advanced

Outcomes

• Design scalable APIs
• Build distributed systems
• Implement caching layers
• Use event-driven architecture

Internship roadmap

1. 1
   System Design Fundamentals
2. 2
   Databases at Scale
3. 3
   Caching Strategies
4. 4
   Distributed Systems
5. 5
   Event Driven Systems
6. 6
   Capstone Project

Curriculum timeline

• Week 1 — System Design

  Scalability, latency, throughput
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• Week 2 — Databases

  Indexing, replication, sharding
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• Week 3 — Caching

  Redis, CDN strategies
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• Week 4 — Distributed Systems

  Consistency, partitioning
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• Week 5 — Event Systems

  Kafka patterns
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• Week 6 — Capstone

  Full backend system
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Starter resources

• System Design Primerlink
• PostgreSQL Docsdoc
• Redis Docsdoc

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