Senior Backend Engineer — Rails/Go API at Scale

Megaport

City of Brisbane

Remote

BRL 201,000 - 335,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Contractor status

30 days leave after 12 months

Competitive compensation

Wellhub access

Annual bonus

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Megaport, in partnership with Latitude.sh, is seeking a seasoned backend engineer for a contractor role to help build and scale core APIs for our NaaS platform. You’ll contribute across Ruby on Rails, Python or Go, and REST API design while collaborating with platform architects and backend leaders.

You will own the reliability of the services you build, shape developer-facing surfaces, and work in a fast-paced, globally distributed team with growth opportunities and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

5+ years backend engineering.
Strong Ruby on Rails, Python or Go (ideally both).
Experience designing and building REST APIs at scale.
Relational databases, background jobs, distributed systems fundamentals.
You care about API design as a craft — our customers are developers and they notice.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the core API that customers, SDKs, Terraform provider, and internal systems depend on.
Work with our platform architect and lead backend engineer on design and implementation.
Contribute to the developer-facing surface: REST APIs, webhooks, SDK compatibility.
Own reliability of the services you build.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Python

REST APIs

Relational databases

API design

Job description

You will own the reliability of the services you build, shape developer-facing surfaces, and work in a fast-paced, globally distributed team with growth opportunities and competitive compensation.

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