Golang Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Systems

PLABS; Kota Bandung; On-site; IDR 250,000,000 - 450,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PLABS is hiring a Fullstack Engineer (Golang) in Bandung for on-site work. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go, build REST/gRPC APIs, and collaborate with frontend teams using Next.js and TypeScript. AI-powered features and vector search are part of the backend scope.

You’ll work with product managers and designers to refine requirements, ensure code quality, and ship reliable features while emphasizing security and performance.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of professional software development, backend-focused.
• Strong Golang proficiency or willingness to learn Go quickly.
• Experience designing REST/gRPC APIs and distributed systems.
• SQL database design, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Auth RBAC, caching (Redis), queues, and performance tuning.
• Frontend basics in Next.js, React, and TypeScript to ship features.
• Interest or experience in AI/LLM integrations (OpenAI API, LangChain).
• CI/CD, unit/integration testing, and clean code mindset.
• Ability to explain decisions and document work clearly.
• Strong problem-solving with a first-principles approach.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Golang services and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Design and optimize database schemas, migrations, and queries.
• Shape service boundaries, caching, background jobs, and messaging.
• Develop backend for AI-powered features and vector search.
• Ship features end-to-end using Next.js, React, and TS where needed.
• Add observability via logging, metrics, and tracing; resolve issues.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams to align delivery.
• Document technical designs and API specifications.

Skills

Golang

API Design

Distributed Systems

SQL

Redis

CI/CD

Unit Testing

OpenAI API

LangChain

Vector Databases

Tools

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Vercel

Job description

PLABS is hiring a Fullstack Engineer (Golang) in Bandung for on-site work. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go, build REST/gRPC APIs, and collaborate with frontend teams using Next.js and TypeScript. AI-powered features and vector search are part of the backend scope.

You’ll work with product managers and designers to refine requirements, ensure code quality, and ship reliable features while emphasizing security and performance.