6-Month Backend King Roadmap: God-Tier Engineering Edition
Guide your academy’s learners from zero to god-tier in backend engineering. Master modern stacks, ace scaling essentials, and build a jaw-dropping portfolio with 12 full-scale, production-ready projects.
Months 1-3
Months 4-5
Month 6: The Capstone Forge (12 Portfolio-Focused Projects)
Go beyond “sample apps”—each project ties together multiple languages, frameworks, enterprise-scale patterns, and integrations found at top companies.
💥 Capstone Projects Lineup
- Omni-Stack API Gateway: Unified gateway routing (Node/Nest) to backend microservices in Go, Django, and Flask, with rate-limiting and JWT security.
- Real-Time Order Processing with Kafka: Accept, queue, and process order streams using Kafka for reliable, scalable, event-driven architectures.
- Scalable Auth as a Service: Central authentication (JWT + OAuth2) service with Redis session cache and multi-language SDKs.
- Leaderboard Platform with Redis & Go: High-throughput, near real-time leaderboard using Redis sorted sets and Go’s concurrency.
- Asynchronous Email/SMS Microservice: Background jobs (Celery/Sidekiq), transactional event sourcing, and status tracking with callbacks.
- Full-Stack eCommerce (React + Nest + Django): Product microservices, cart, payment orchestration, and order tracking.
- Notification Broadcast System: Publish/subscribe with RabbitMQ or Kafka for multi-channel delivery (email, push, SMS).
- API Rate Limiter & Usage Analytics: Central rate-limiting service with seamless SDK integration and a monitoring dashboard.
- Document Storage & Search (Go + Flask): Upload, index, and search documents using microservices with text extraction and caching.
- Streaming Data Pipeline: Ingest, process, and aggregate events in real time, visualizing metrics with Prometheus & Grafana.
- Monolith-to-Microservices Migration: Refactor a legacy app into stateless, Dockerized services with an API gateway.
- Self-Healing Infrastructure & Rollback: Automated health checks, distributed tracing, and automated failover/rollback flows.
🎓 Learning Delivery & Outcomes
- Every lesson includes hands-on, immediate code and a focused mini-project.
- Experience live code reviews, hackathons, and real-world scenarios.
- Become confident in modern backend stacks (JS, Python, Go).
- Master microservices, messaging, and caching at scale.
- Graduate equipped for any backend interview and real-world deployment.
- Each capstone is documented, demoed, and recruiter-ready.