Go Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems & High-Load APIs

O&B; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

O&B is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go and distributed systems to join our high-performance software team serving global tech enterprises. You will design, build, and maintain microservices in Go with Python as a secondary stack, contributing to highly available distributed systems and owning scalability across services.

You will participate in Agile ceremonies, work on real-time data pipelines, and leverage AWS and PostgreSQL for robust operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years Go as your primary production language.
• Strong command of Go concurrency, including goroutines, channels, sync.Mutex, WaitGroup, context, and race-condition fixes.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven design.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch) and PostgreSQL.
• Proven experience with high-load systems and ability to discuss scale failures.
• English proficiency and problem-solving mindset.
• Experience using Python for services, tooling, or data work.
• Familiarity with Airflow or another ETL orchestration tool.
• Background in high-traffic domains, CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain microservices using Go with Python as a secondary stack.
• Work on highly available distributed systems at global scale.
• Build and optimize APIs interacting with real-time data pipelines.
• Own the scalability, performance, and reliability across services.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical discussions, and peer reviews.

Skills

5+ years backend experience

Go programming

Go concurrency

Microservices architecture

Event-driven design

CI/CD

English proficiency

Python for services/tools

ETL orchestration tooling

High-load systems

Tools

AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch)

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Containerization

Monitoring tools

Job description

O&B is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go and distributed systems to join our high-performance software team serving global tech enterprises. You will design, build, and maintain microservices in Go with Python as a secondary stack, contributing to highly available distributed systems and owning scalability across services.

You will participate in Agile ceremonies, work on real-time data pipelines, and leverage AWS and PostgreSQL for robust operations.