Senior Go Backend Engineer - Multimodal AI Orchestrator

Talanto; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) in Amsterdam to architect multimodal generation pipelines and scale high-concurrency Go services. You will design microservices, optimize Kafka-SQS processing, and collaborate with AI researchers to deliver fast, reliable AI workflows for creators and designers.

Join a fast-moving team building a production-ready Creative Engine on AWS, with emphasis on performance, observability, and quality software practices.

Qualifications

• Advanced Go engineering in high-traffic SaaS environments.
• Distributed systems design with asynchronous processing (Kafka & SQS) and low-latency communication.
• Cloud architecture on AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda) and scalable compute environments.
• Experience building professional-grade creative tools or media-heavy applications.
• Commitment to code quality, testing, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate multimodal workflows with Go-based microservices.
• Optimize ConnectRPC and async pipelines for long-running AI tasks.
• Develop backend logic for multimodal orchestration and generation features.
• Work with AWS to manage data throughput and storage/compute clusters.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to deliver polished user experiences.

Skills

Go engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Product rigor

Software best practices

Tools

Kafka

SQS

gRPC

ConnectRPC

GraphQL

AWS

Job description

Talanto is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) in Amsterdam to architect multimodal generation pipelines and scale high-concurrency Go services. You will design microservices, optimize Kafka-SQS processing, and collaborate with AI researchers to deliver fast, reliable AI workflows for creators and designers.

Join a fast-moving team building a production-ready Creative Engine on AWS, with emphasis on performance, observability, and quality software practices.