Backend Engineer | 2025CBIN05002/33786

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Backend Developer with extensive experience in Python and Golang to join their team. This role focuses on migrating legacy systems and improving product strategies. Candidates should have a strong background in developing distributed systems and be comfortable working in a remote environment.

Benefits

Work from home opportunity

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Expertise in Python and Golang, especially in large-scale migrations.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Contribute to the full development cycle from design to launch.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance.

Skills

Python

Golang

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

High-throughput workloads

Unit testing

CI/CD

A/B testing

Code reviews

Documentation

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Memcached

SQL

NoSQL

GraphQL

REST

HTTP

Job description

Job Description

Job Summary

In this role, you'll work with a specific team within this organization to drive related technical & product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.

Poster Experience specifically focuses on the user journey, which is the main source of user content for the product. We aim to make it easier, faster, and smarter to create and participate in conversations, and we drive several core product metrics for the entire ecosystem.

This specific role will involve migrating legacy Python microservice code to one or more existing Go microservices. Successful candidates have prior experience in these migrations at large scale (think millions of actions per day) and understand how to instrument and monitor their code for parity and consistency during rollout.

Job Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
• Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues.
• Ensure compliance with security protocols and data privacy regulations during integration processes.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance to provide an optimal experience.
• Design maintainable database schemas and easy-to-understand data structures.
• Design technical solutions with little direction or guidance.
• Engage in the team's organizational processes, such as planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective collaboration and feedback.
• Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks.

Essential Skills

• Minimum 8+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing distributed backend systems at scale.
• Expertise in Python and Golang, as well as in large-scale Python to Golang migrations.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and handling high-throughput workloads.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
• Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and the ability to design maintainable APIs.

Other Details

• Timing: 4 hours of overlap with PST time zone (e.g., 10 am - 2 pm PST).
• Work from home opportunity.
• Payment based solely on hours worked. Candidates are responsible for statutory compliances and taxes.
• Most jobs require 8 hours of work per day; dual employment is not allowed, and full commitment to the role is required.

Background Check required

Hiring Process

• Consent to share resume and details with the customer for evaluation.
• Interview rounds include: 1) 60-minute live coding interview (Golang/Python) with Partner; 2) 45-minute client hiring manager screen; 3-4) 1-2 technical rounds with the client's team.

Requirements

Backend Python and Golang experience required.