4 months ago
Vilnius, LithuaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve high-traffic backend services primarily in Go.
- Lead and influence architecture decisions involving domain modeling, service boundaries, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
- Drive the evolution of the service platform with senior and lead engineers.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges and develop long-term solutions.
- Own complex technical initiatives from design through production rollout.
- Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code and raise engineering standards across the team.
Requirements
- Strong experience building production-grade backend systems.
- Solid understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and API design.
- Experience with databases, messaging systems, and service-oriented or event-driven architectures.
- Ability to reason about concurrency, performance, and reliability.
- Confidence participating in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
- Bonus: experience scaling systems serving millions of requests, hands-on production experience with Go, observability and operational excellence, or backend platform modernization.
Benefits
- Dedicated learning time, conference support, online learning platforms, and books.
- Health and wellness benefits including online workouts, a physical coach, gym access, and regular mental health checks.
- Choice of technical equipment and work tools.
- Yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, team-building activities, and company celebrations.
- Partial compensation for public transportation costs depending on circumstances.
- Office-based work encouraged with up to two remote days per week, plus a work-from-anywhere policy allowing work from almost anywhere in the world.
- Premium Surfshark accounts for the employee, family, and friends.
- Gross salary of 6000–7200 EUR/month for the Lithuanian market or 24000–33400 PLN/month for the Polish market, varying by skills and experience.
About Surfshark
Surfshark develops consumer cybersecurity and privacy software, including a cross-platform VPN, antivirus, data-leak alerts, private search, and data removal tools. It sells subscription plans directly to individuals, offering apps for desktop, mobile, and browsers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the company serves a global consumer market.