Senior Go Backend Engineer - Fleet & Edge Infra (Remote)

Safely You; Montreal; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech innovation company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale their infrastructure managing numerous devices. This role involves designing scalable backend systems in Go, contributing to frontend tools, and offering mentorship. Ideal candidates have extensive software engineering experience, particularly in backend and infrastructure. A competitive compensation package will be provided, including healthcare benefits and remote work options.

Benefits

Fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision

Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends

Non-accrual PTO

Growth Potential

Company Retreats

Medical & Family/Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering (backend or infrastructure focus).
• Hands-on experience with Go or another modern backend language.
• Experience designing distributed systems or working with microservices.
• Comfortable navigating Linux and networking-level issues in production environments.
• Familiar with observability tooling and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, especially in a remote-first team.
• Curious, humble, and passionate about building systems that last.
• Previous experience mentoring others is a plus.
• Comfortable making tradeoffs between velocity and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems in Go.
• Implement observability and alerting for uptime and performance.
• Contribute to internal frontend tools as needed.
• Drive technical decisions and help define system architecture.
• Partner closely with Product and Ops to align on priorities.
• Participate in on-call rotation to uphold system reliability.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews.
• Balance pragmatism with maintainability.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Backend or infrastructure focus

Experience with Go

Designing distributed systems

Linux and networking

Communication

Collaboration

Mentoring

Job description

A tech innovation company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale their infrastructure managing numerous devices. This role involves designing scalable backend systems in Go, contributing to frontend tools, and offering mentorship. Ideal candidates have extensive software engineering experience, particularly in backend and infrastructure. A competitive compensation package will be provided, including healthcare benefits and remote work options.