Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - PerfectScale by DoiT (Ukraine)

DoiT International; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 1.334.222.000 - 2.001.335.000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to work on core backend solutions, collaborate with product managers, and participate in decision-making processes. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in backend development, particularly with Golang, and a strong background in high-traffic systems and database optimization. This role offers flexibility and the chance to work in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python).
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience.
• 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems.
• Experience with databases, including performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to deliver solutions for complex problems.
• Implement features from proposal to maintenance.
• Write clean and maintainable code using best practices.
• Improve the health of the codebase to reduce technical debt.
• Provide feedback within the team to address challenges.

Skills

English communication skills

Backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python)

Commercial Golang experience

Experience with high traffic / high load systems

Database optimization (ClickHouse, Postgress)

SaaS product development

Microservices and container expertise (Docker)

Distributed systems design

Devops practices (Docker, K8s)

Benchmarking and optimization

Flexibility in fast-paced environments

Self-organization and motivation

Job description

Location

Remote EMEA

The Opportunity

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working on the core backend solutions, powering PerfectScale data pipeline and business logic. You\'ll be collaborating with product managers, and developers from other teams and also participate in product-making decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems
• Implementing features. From the proposal through design and implementation to maintenance. You\'re expected to propose things that you think can be an excellent addition to the products
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, you will also ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for your peers
• Improving the health of the codebase. We\'re mindful of accumulating technical debt. We dedicate one day per week to housekeeping
• Providing feedback. The team plans and discusses the upcoming work. We provide feedback to each other, trying to find challenges and unknowns as early as possible

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python)
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience
• 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems and data pipelines
• Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance / schema / query optimization. ClickHouse and Postgress are a big advantage.
• Experience developing enterprise-grade SaaS products, microservices and containers
• Experienced working with microservices and containers (Docker)
• Experience and passion for distributed systems design and infrastructure
• Familiarity with modern Devops frameworks and best practices - Docker, K8s, GitOps, CI/CD
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment
• Self-organized, Goal-oriented, self-motivated individual who is confident, thorough and tenacious

Bonus Points

• Hands-on, production experience with K8S
• Hands-on, production experience with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with data engineering - streaming and batch processing, spark, tryno, iceberg, clickhouse, parquet

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