backend-architect - Design scalable backend systems and APIs
Designs scalable backend services and APIs, including service boundaries, contracts, integration patterns, resilience, and observability.
Tags
Updated: 2026-10-05backend architectureAPI designmicroservicesdistributed systemsevent-driven architectureobservability
Capabilities
Typical Inputs
What this skill does
- Capture domain requirements
- Define service boundaries
- Design API contracts
- Choose integration patterns
- Plan resilience strategies
- Design event-driven systems
- Plan authentication and authorization
- Design observability practices
Inputs
- Domain context
- Use cases
- Non-functional requirements
- Integration constraints
- Scaling requirements
- Observability needs
Outputs
- Architecture recommendations
- Service boundary definitions
- API contracts
- Integration designs
- Resilience plans
- Observability plans
- Rollout plans
