Senior Backend Engineer II - Golang

7 days ago

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go.
Lead implementation of backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance.
Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications.
Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives.
Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals.
Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems.
Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems.
Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups.
Proactively identify and implement process improvements in the software development process.
Be a champion for testing, leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects.

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services.
Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems.
Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs.
Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs.
Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies.
Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems.