Back-end Developer Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of a Back-end Developer includes the following duties and responsibilities:

Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
Main focus on coding and debugging
Collaborate with Front-end developers
Define and communicate technical and design requirements
Provide training, help and support to other team members
Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in thew future
Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Learn about new technologies
Stay up to date with current best practices
Conduct UI tests and optimize performance
Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators
Participate in conferences and educational programs
Follow new and emerging technologies

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Back-end Developer duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Back-end Developer roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.

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