Senior Go Engineer – Remote AI Backend & Platform Architect

blau direkt; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote or hybrid work in Poland

Training budget €800 per year

Referral Bonus

Startup atmosphere

No dress code

Modern office with facilities

Job summary

blau direkt is building an AI-powered platform and seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and platform components powering AI workflows.

You will own technical initiatives end-to-end, contribute architectural ideas, ensure production readiness, observability, and reliability, while collaborating with Product and QA. Frontend work with React/TypeScript is a plus but not the core focus; remote or hybrid work is available in Poland.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience in software engineering.
• Strong backend development experience with Go.
• Experience developing backend or platform systems in production environments.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and system design.
• Experience building systems with high scalability, availability, and reliability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools and practices (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting).
• Experience working with Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience with AI tools, LLM APIs, or AI-driven workflows.
• Ability to effectively use modern AI development tools such as Cursor or Claude.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives from concept to production.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
• High level of ownership and proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable and reliable backend services and platform components in Go.
• Build APIs and integrations between internal services, AI models, and external systems.
• Develop AI-powered workflows, including agent-based solutions where they provide clear product value.
• Contribute to the architecture of AI solutions and drive their implementation together with the engineering team.
• Design systems with clear failure modes, fallbacks, and strong debuggability.
• Consider evaluation, observability, latency, reliability, and cost when productionising LLM-based functionality.
• Monitor and improve the quality and operational performance of AI-powered features.
• Lead technical initiatives from concept through implementation, deployment, and production operation.
• Write maintainable, well-tested, and idiomatic Go code.
• Participate actively in code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and other engineers to deliver functionality in short feedback loops.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies pragmatically and introduce them when they provide measurable value.
• Support the development of user-facing applications when needed, in collaboration with the wider team.

Skills

Go backend

LLM/AI

Docker

Observability

CI/CD

React/TypeScript

Code reviews

Leadership

Tools

Git

GitLab CI

Playwright

Sentry

Job description

blau direkt is building an AI-powered platform and seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and platform components powering AI workflows.

You will own technical initiatives end-to-end, contribute architectural ideas, ensure production readiness, observability, and reliability, while collaborating with Product and QA. Frontend work with React/TypeScript is a plus but not the core focus; remote or hybrid work is available in Poland.