AI-Assisted Backend & API Engineering

Backend Systems & API Engineering is a comprehensive course designed to teach the foundations and real?world practices of server?side application development. The course focuses on building reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems that power modern web and mobile applications.

Learners will work with Node.js and Express to design RESTful APIs, manage application logic, handle authentication and authorization, integrate databases, and implement middleware and error?handling mechanisms. Emphasis is placed on clean architecture, data modeling, environment configuration, and deployment workflows.

AI is used as an intelligent assistant throughout backend development. Students will learn how AI tools can help design API contracts, debug server errors, analyze logs, optimize database queries, and improve code maintainability. This reflects how modern backend engineers leverage AI for faster iteration and better system reliability.

By the end of the course, learners will be able to build full backend services, connect them to frontend applications, and deploy them using cloud platforms. The course prepares learners for backend and full?stack roles where system thinking and AI?assisted development are critical.

Tools Covered:

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Postman
• GitHub
• Docker
• ChatGPT
• Railway