Senior Software Engineer - GoLang

Proximity Works; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class salary

Proximity Talks

Continuous learning

High-impact AI projects

Job summary

Proximity Works is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to design and build highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems with RESTful services. You will own backend architecture, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional initiatives with product and design teams.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in software development with Go/Java/Python, hands-on experience with microservices, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD, and strong English communication. Join our global, AI-focused engineering team in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• Five to eight years of software development experience with Go/Java/Python
• Experience with microservice architectures and distributed systems
• Experience building RESTful APIs with monitoring and metrics
• Experience with AWS stack and DevOps practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with minimal guidance in a fluid environment
• Experience mentoring engineers (optional)
• Experience with open-source projects (optional)
• Strong drive for growth

Responsibilities

• Write clean, high-quality, high-performance backend code
• Solve complex technical problems
• Perform objective problem analysis and craft solutions before coding
• Coordinate cross-functional work to meet objectives and compliance
• Participate in and lead code reviews
• Build secure, scalable microservices
• Implement RESTful APIs with a metric-driven API gateway
• Handle diverse data stores and messaging stores
• Track defects, triage bugs, manage backlog
• Own cloud infrastructure maintenance
• Evaluate technologies and influence architecture
• Architect and design the platform
• Mentor junior engineers and perform reviews
• Write documentation and engineering processes
• Contribute as an individual contributor
• Help drive KPIs with Product
• Lead backend systems ownership
• Support unit tests and QA
• Scale engineering teams to handle large data
• Collaborate with product managers and design teams

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

RESTful services

Microservices

CI/CD

AWS

K8 (Kubernetes)

Docker

Leadership

English communication

Education

Computer Science degree (optional)

Tools

Springboot

Gin/Mux

Elasticsearch

Redis

DynamoDB

Camel/ActiveMQ

MySQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

• Writing documentation & create engineering processes

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

You'll be responsible for—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code
• Solving complex technical problems
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Participating in and driving code reviews
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions
• Architecting & designing the platform
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes
• Working as an individual contributor
• Helping drive KPIs with Product
• Taking ownership of backend systems
• Helping with unit tests & QA process
• Scaling the engineering team
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users
• Working with product managers and designs

Requirements

What you need—

• Overall 5-8 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional)
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD
• Experience with micro web frameworks - like Springboot, Gin/Mux
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix)
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ
• DevOps experience
• Experience with AWS stack
• Excellent attention to detail
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional)
• To have contributed to open-source projects
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth
• Proficiency in English
• Experience with Web3(optional)

Benefits

What you get—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients

About Us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We're headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.