Senior Go Backend Engineer for Global Distributed Systems

o b; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

o b is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go and distributed systems to join a high-performance software team serving global tech enterprises.

You will design, build, and maintain microservices in Go, with Python as a secondary stack, and work on highly available systems at a global scale. Expect ownership of scalability, performance, and reliability, plus active participation in Agile ceremonies and code reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid backend engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on Go in production work.
• Strong Go concurrency knowledge: goroutines, channels, sync.Mutex, WaitGroup, context.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven design.
• Hands-on AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch) and PostgreSQL experience.
• Proven experience with high-load systems and scale.
• Ownership mindset and strong problem-solving.
• English proficiency.
• Experience using Python for services, tooling, or data work.
• Familiarity with Airflow or another ETL orchestration tool.
• Background in high-traffic domains (e-commerce, logistics, fintech) with CI/CD and monitoring.

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

Go

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

English proficiency

Tools

AWS ECS

PostgreSQL

Airflow

CI/CD

Containerization

CloudWatch

Job description

o b is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go and distributed systems to join a high-performance software team serving global tech enterprises.

You will design, build, and maintain microservices in Go, with Python as a secondary stack, and work on highly available systems at a global scale. Expect ownership of scalability, performance, and reliability, plus active participation in Agile ceremonies and code reviews.