Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

About the role
We're looking for a senior backend engineer who writes production Go and enjoys building reliable, distributed systems. You'll join a small, early engineering team and take ownership of core backend services, from design through to running them in production.
This role sits close to the infrastructure: the services you build will orchestrate cloud resources, handle long-running background work, and need to behave correctly when things fail. We value reliability and clear design over cleverness.
What you'll do
Design and build backend services and APIs in Go
Build and maintain asynchronous job processing: queues, retries, idempotent operations and failure recovery
Integrate with cloud provider APIs and third-party services
Design data models and write performant, safe PostgreSQL code
Build secure, multi-tenant REST APIs with authentication and role-based access control
Add metrics, structured logging and alerting to everything you ship
Take part in architecture decisions, code reviews and a shared on-call rotation
What we're looking for
Must have
5+ years of backend engineering, with at least 3 years writing production Go
Solid concurrency in Go: goroutines, channels, context cancellation and timeouts, and graceful shutdown
Strong PostgreSQL: schema design, transactions, row locking, migrations and query tuning
Experience building distributed or asynchronous systems: job queues, retries, idempotency and failure handling
Comfort with Linux, networking basics (DNS, TLS, HTTP, TCP) and debugging on real servers
REST API design, authentication (sessions, JWT, MFA) and multi-tenant access control
Docker and Kubernetes experience, as a user deploying services
Writing tests, including integration tests against real dependencies
Nice to have
Linux containers and virtualisation internals
Google Cloud Platform (GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud SQL) and Terraform
Workflow engines such as Temporal
TLS/certificate automation, reverse proxies (nginx, Caddy)
Storage systems, snapshots and backup/restore tooling
Subscription billing integrations (e.g. Stripe)