Golang VPN Backend Architect (Hands-on)

Accion Labs Europe; Poland; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Accion Labs Europe seeks a hands-on VPN Backend Architect to lead our backend team and spend ~70% of time coding in Golang. You will set the technical direction for our backend platform and own architecture for fast, secure distributed services.

You will partner with the SDK team to deliver client features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and champion testing and best practices. This role balances design with active coding and delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS
• 5+ years backend engineering experience, 3+ years with Golang
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Deep understanding of networking: IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS
• Hands-on VPN experience: WireGuard/OpenVPN/IPsec
• Knowledge of cryptography, threat modeling and secure coding
• Strong API design and durable interfaces between services
• AWS production experience: EC2, EKS, S3, Aurora/RDS
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent debugging, problem solving and collaboration skills
• Strong communication and leadership by example

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve backend architecture for scalable services
• Design and operate highly available distributed services
• Set direction around scalability, reliability, performance
• Partner with SDK team to integrate client features
• Lead code reviews and promote testing and clean architecture
• Mentor engineers and grow technical depth
• Collaborate with security, infra and product teams

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems design

Team leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Golang

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

WireGuard

OpenVPN

IPsec

Job description

Accion Labs Europe seeks a hands-on VPN Backend Architect to lead our backend team and spend ~70% of time coding in Golang. You will set the technical direction for our backend platform and own architecture for fast, secure distributed services.

You will partner with the SDK team to deliver client features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and champion testing and best practices. This role balances design with active coding and delivery.