Senior Go Backend Architect – Payments & Streaming (Remote)

Kake; Tijuana; Remote; MXN 2,251,000 - 3,376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive USD pay

Fully remote

Better Me Fund

Compassionate community

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Backend (Go) Engineer to join its technology team. You will develop the digital and streaming products powering payments, subscriptions, billing, taxes, refunds, and commerce across large-scale direct-to-consumer experiences.

You will design scalable APIs and event-driven systems, own production services, mentor peers, and collaborate with stakeholders globally to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with scalable APIs and event-driven systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go; production experience from day one.
• Experience with payments or commerce platforms (Stripe, Adyen, etc.).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Redis).
• Proficient in AWS and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong ownership mindset and incident response experience.
• Excellent communication in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of key commerce capabilities, from architecture and design through production.
• Design and build scalable, secure APIs and event-driven systems.
• Work on payment authorization and capture, refunds, disputes, reconciliation, and subscription lifecycle management.
• Build reliable systems that handle retries, out-of-order webhooks, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
• Make architecture decisions balancing reliability, security, cost, and speed of delivery.
• Take ownership of production systems, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
• Write high-quality production code with meaningful test coverage and automation.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the engineering standards across the team.
• Evaluate emerging payment and commerce technologies and identify opportunities to improve conversion, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Work closely with stakeholders across different business areas to build reusable commerce capabilities without compromising their individual customer experiences.

Skills

Go

API design

Event-driven design

Payments platforms

Cloud fundamentals

Generative AI in dev

Ownership mindset

Communication skills

Tools

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company seeking a Senior Backend (Go) Engineer to join its technology team. You will develop the digital and streaming products powering payments, subscriptions, billing, taxes, refunds, and commerce across large-scale direct-to-consumer experiences.

You will design scalable APIs and event-driven systems, own production services, mentor peers, and collaborate with stakeholders globally to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency.