Senior Backend Developer Position

We're seeking a skilled Backend Developer to join our team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain server-side services and APIs using Go and Python.
• Deliver production-grade, well-tested, and maintainable code that supports a scalable monolith/modular monolith architecture.
• Make and document pragmatic system design decisions (trade-offs, performance, operability) and implement sensible defaults and privacy by design.
• Build resilient data access layers and work with PostgreSQL, Redis (or equivalent) for transactional and caching needs.
• Collaborate with frontend, data, and product teams to translate product requirements into technically sound solutions.
• Participate in and lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and raise the team's engineering bar.
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment workflows (tests, pipelines, monitoring, alerts) together with DevOps.
• Troubleshoot, profile, and optimize runtime performance and system resource use.
• Ship quickly, gather feedback, measure adoption, and iterate, take responsibility for the full lifecycle of features you own.

Mandatory Skills:

• Go (Golang): Multiple shipped services or components; solid understanding of goroutines, channels, concurrency patterns, error handling, and idiomatic Go.
• Python: Production experience building backend services, scripts, or data pipelines; comfortable with async patterns where relevant.
• APIs & Services: Designed and delivered RESTful and/or gRPC APIs; experience in versioning, pagination, auth, and error handling.
• Databases: Strong SQL skills (Postgres preferred) and familiarity with schema design, indexing, transactions, and query optimization.
• Testing & CI/CD: Unit/integration testing, automated pipelines, and release discipline.
• Debugging & Observability: Experience with logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and responding to incidents.
• Hands-on Production Experience: Evidence of operating services in production — deployments, rollbacks, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with GCP (Compute/GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, or equivalent).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with message queues (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ) or background job systems.
• Experience with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and A/B experimentation.
• Knowledge of security best practices for backend services (rate limiting, auth, encryption).
• Previous experience building data-facing APIs or analytics ingestion pipelines.

Product Engineer Mindset:

• Ship fast; iterate faster. Prefer small, testable releases that get user feedback quickly.
• Prioritize for impact. Understand company strategy and prioritize work that moves user and business metrics.
• Propose and validate ideas. Proactively suggest product improvements and validate them with experiments or metrics.
• Own outcomes. Make sure what you build is actually used — track adoption and follow up to improve it.
• Descope to deliver. Know how to break work down and get a useful product in users' hands quickly.
• Work with low ceremony. Move projects forward without over-reliance on meetings; communicate asynchronously and decisively.
• Dive deep when required. Solve root causes when shipping depends on solving deeper technical issues.

What We Look For:

• Demonstrated ownership of features from design to production and follow-up improvements.
• Strong communication: explain trade-offs clearly to engineers and non-engineers.
• Mentorship: willingness and ability to ramp up junior engineers.
• Bias toward action combined with good judgment about technical debt and long-term maintainability.
• Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to make decisions with incomplete information.

Why Join Us?

• Big ownership of critical systems that power our product for enterprise customers.
• Be an early driver of architecture and best practices as the team scales.
• Direct impact on product direction, your decisions will change how customers experience the product.
• A pragmatic, no-nonsense culture that values hard work, rapid learning, and excellence.