Senior Software Engineer (Go/GoLang)

OB Sports Golf Management, LLC; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

OB Sports Golf Management, LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Go and distributed systems. You will design, build, and maintain microservices in Go with Python as a secondary stack, while working on highly available systems at global scale.

You will own scalability, performance, and reliability across services, participate in Agile ceremonies, and discuss past scaling challenges during technical reviews. Strong ownership and English proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid backend engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain microservices using Go, utilizing Python as a secondary stack.

Skills

Go language

Go concurrency

English fluency

Ownership mindset

Problem solving

Python usage

Distributed systems

High-load systems

CI/CD

Containerization

Monitoring tools

Tools

AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch)

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Docker

Job description

As a Senior Backend Engineer focusing on Go and Distributed Systems, you will be part of a high-performance software team acting as a trusted engineering partner for global tech enterprises.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain microservices using Go, utilizing Python as a secondary stack.
• Work on highly available distributed systems running at a global scale.
• Build and optimize APIs that interact directly with real-time data pipelines.
• Own the scalability, performance, and reliability across all the services you touch.
• Take an active part in Agile ceremonies, technical discussions, and peer reviews.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of recent, hands-on experience using Go as your primary language in production work.
• Strong command of Go concurrency, including goroutines, channels, sync.Mutex, WaitGroup, context, and detecting and fixing race conditions.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and event-driven design.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (specifically ECS, S3, CloudWatch, and similar tools) and PostgreSQL.
• Proven experience with high-load systems, including the readiness to walk through a past project and discuss what broke at scale.
• A strong sense of ownership, a real problem-solving mindset, and English proficiency.
• Experience using Python for services, tooling, or data work.
• Familiarity with Airflow or another ETL orchestration tool.
• Background in e-commerce, logistics, fintech, or another high-traffic domain, alongside experience with CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring tools.