
Software Developer - Backend
TextNow, Inc.2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$124k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and sustain high-performance, scalable backend services using Go microservices.
- Lead architectural modernization, modularization, monolith decomposition, legacy migration, and adoption of shared frameworks and service components.
- Own the full system lifecycle, including API design, data modeling, deployment, monitoring, integration and load testing, telemetry, experimentation, and iteration.
- Apply AI-driven tools and automation to accelerate development, code analysis, testing, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, fault-tolerance strategies, and production diagnostics for distributed systems.
- Partner with product, mobile, and data teams to deliver experiences across platforms.
- Drive technical discussions, lead strategic initiatives, mentor developers, and influence backend and infrastructure direction.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Go; PHP experience for legacy systems is a bonus.
- Proven experience architecting modular, maintainable, high-performance microservices.
- Strong background in system design, observability, and performance optimization.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Protobuf, CI/CD pipelines, and auto-scaling architectures.
- Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or system intelligence.
- Understanding of instrumentation, SLOs, SLIs, fault tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through roadmap influence, multi-team initiatives, mentoring or leading developers, process improvements, and interaction with senior developer or product leadership.
Benefits
- Free phone service, employee stock options, unlimited vacation, and 12 paid holidays per year.
- Health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits.
- $750 annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account and 401(k) matching.
- Parental leave for eligible employees and learning and development opportunities.
- The company travels a few times a year for team events and company-wide off-sites.
- Competitive pay with location- and level-based salary ranges.