Backend Engineer II (Go) — Exposure Risk APIs

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity

401(k) matching

Health, vision, and dental

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer II (Backend) to join our Exposure Management team, focusing on building reliable backend services and APIs using Go, with an emphasis on security and scalability.

Based in Canada, this remote-first role collaborates with frontend, product, and other engineering teams, owning features end-to-end from design to deployment and monitoring, while supporting interns and contributing to a security-focused platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Production Go experience or strong backend language with motivation to switch to Go.
• Experience designing/consuming REST or gRPC APIs for frontend apps.
• Strong SQL skills and relational data modeling.
• Automated tests, CI, monitoring, and clear code reviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative work style.
• Proactive, curious learner open to new domains and tools.

Responsibilities

• Own small-to-medium backend API features end to end from design to launch.
• Build and extend REST and gRPC APIs for Exposure Management and Supplier Risk Intelligence.
• Develop risk event endpoints for SIEM integrations (Splunk, Google SecOps, Sentinel).
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and other teams to define API contracts and response structures.
• Integrate data/services via gRPC and Pub/Sub, ensuring reliable interfaces.
• Optimize API performance with PostgreSQL, indexing, caching, and payload improvements.
• Write automated tests, implement observability, and oversee releases and on-call support.
• Incorporate customer feedback into tech and product discussions.
• Mentor interns and less experienced engineers through collaboration.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

API design

SQL

CI/CD

Testing

On-call support

Communication

Proactive problem solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

OpenAPI specs

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer II (Backend) to join our Exposure Management team, focusing on building reliable backend services and APIs using Go, with an emphasis on security and scalability.

Based in Canada, this remote-first role collaborates with frontend, product, and other engineering teams, owning features end-to-end from design to deployment and monitoring, while supporting interns and contributing to a security-focused platform.