Staff Backend Engineer (Golang)

📋 Description

• Architect and build the core backend infrastructure for our SaaS products.
• Lead and contribute to large-scale projects for scalable, reliable systems.
• Design, architect, and build features end-to-end with Product and distributed Engineering.
• Drive innovation and make critical architectural decisions on cutting-edge tech.
• Mentor teammates, sharing your expertise and promoting best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 10+ years building scalable backends.
• 3+ years in Golang with a focus on microservices/distributed architecture.
• Experience designing APIs with gRPC (preferred), REST, GraphQL, or Thrift.
• Design solutions from scratch; code and docs as examples of best practices.
• Scalable distributed systems experience with microservices, load balancing.
• Architecture skills and data-driven evaluation for scalable design.
• Ability to discuss tradeoffs to influence teams to move in the right direction.
• Enjoy fast-moving environments with evolving requirements.
• Creative, independent problem solving in uncharted territory.
• Troubleshooting distributed systems and root-cause analysis.

🎁 Benefits

• Participation in external forums, conferences, and open-source communities.
• Mentor and coach teammates to foster continuous learning.
• Observability-focused practices to improve reliability and availability.