Go Backend Engineer — High-Performance & Scalable (Hybrid)

Trever; Graz; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Office in Graz

Competitive salary

Job summary

Trever is seeking a senior backend engineer in Graz, Austria to design, build, and own high-performance APIs and services. You will lead complex integrations with a focus on security and scalability, and continuously improve infrastructure using Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS.

The role demands strong Go expertise, ownership mindset, and clear cross-team communication. You will contribute to architectural decisions, promote best practices, and mentor others while working in a hybrid setup with an

Qualifications

• Relevant hands-on software engineering experience with backend systems.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable APIs and services.

Responsibilities

• Build and own backend services: design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable APIs and services.
• Shape high-performance systems with focus on performance, low latency, resilience, and scalability.
• Lead complex integrations and design security-focused integrations with third-party systems.
• Improve infrastructure using Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS for reliability and scale.
• Drive technical improvements, identify bottlenecks, and influence architecture decisions.
• Set quality standards with best practices for clean code, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Go

Backend development

Ownership mindset

Clear communicator

3+ years experience

Education

Relevant technical education

Tools

Gin

gRPC

Kubernetes (k8s)

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

AWS

Grafana

Terraform

GitLab

SQL

Job description

Trever is seeking a senior backend engineer in Graz, Austria to design, build, and own high-performance APIs and services. You will lead complex integrations with a focus on security and scalability, and continuously improve infrastructure using Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS.

The role demands strong Go expertise, ownership mindset, and clear cross-team communication. You will contribute to architectural decisions, promote best practices, and mentor others while working in a hybrid setup with an