Backend Engineer | 2025CBIN05002/33786

TN United Kingdom; London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced software developer to migrate legacy Python microservices to Go. The role requires collaboration across teams to enhance product strategy and user experience, with a focus on high-throughput systems. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in backend development and a passion for innovation.

Benefits

Work from home opportunity

Flexible hours with PST overlap

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Expertise in Python and Golang with experience in migrations.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to the full development cycle including design and testing.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance.

Skills

Python

Golang

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

Organizational skills

Communication

Message queues

Caching systems

Database technologies

APIs design

Job description

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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 involves migrating legacy Python microservice code to one or more existing Go microservices. Successful candidates will 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 teams to execute on product and business strategies and build innovative products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch. Review code and design documents, and provide feedback on product specs and mockups.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and mentor engineers to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical skills.
• Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues.
• Ensure compliance with security protocols and data privacy regulations during integrations.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance to provide an optimal user experience.
• Design maintainable database schemas and easy-to-understand data structures.
• Design technical solutions with little guidance.
• Engage in organizational processes such as planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews to ensure effective collaboration.
• Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks.

Essential Skills

• Minimum 8+ years of professional software development experience developing distributed backend systems at scale.
• Expertise in Python and Golang, with experience 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 testing, design documentation, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with teams remotely and discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion for building new things, thriving in ambiguity, and caring about innovation.
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and designing maintainable APIs.

Other Details

• Timing: 4 hours overlap with PST (e.g., 10 am - 2 pm PST).
• Work from home opportunity.
• Payment based on hours worked; candidates are responsible for statutory compliances and taxes.
• Most roles require full-time commitment (8 hours/day), and dual employment is not permitted.

Background Check

Required

Hiring Process

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

Requirements: Golang, Python