Senior Backend Engineer Interview Questions

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- How to efficiently delete records from a relational database table with millions of rows - Practical understanding and application of SOLID principles - How to monitor and observe the health of running microservices - The differences and trade-offs between a monolithic architecture and microservices
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Bettermile

4.2
Jun 20, 2025

- How to efficiently delete records from a relational database table with millions of rows - Practical understanding and application of SOLID principles - How to monitor and observe the health of running microservices - The differences and trade-offs between a monolithic architecture and microservices

The first pair programming interview asked me to develop a currency conversion service, which gets rates from a third-party provider (which was stubbed out for the exercise), and progressively added problems of availability, scalability, reliability, etc. The systems design interview asked me to first design on a white board a system that takes a file listing bank transfers as an input, enriches each entry using an external service, and store them in a database. The second part of the interview was a high level implementation of the system using Java interfaces.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Wise

3.6
Feb 17, 2023

The first pair programming interview asked me to develop a currency conversion service, which gets rates from a third-party provider (which was stubbed out for the exercise), and progressively added problems of availability, scalability, reliability, etc. The systems design interview asked me to first design on a white board a system that takes a file listing bank transfers as an input, enriches each entry using an external service, and store them in a database. The second part of the interview was a high level implementation of the system using Java interfaces.

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