Go Backend Engineer II - API & Microservices

Optimum Communications Inc.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Communications Inc. in Plano, Texas seeks a backend engineer to evolve our omni-channel API platform. You will design and implement Go-based services, expose REST and gRPC APIs, and map business needs into reliable contracts across systems.

Work with Cloud Spanner, Redis, and modern CI/CD on GitLab, collaborating with frontend and platform teams to deliver scalable API delivery and maintain high-quality service behavior.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining backend systems or service-oriented applications.
• Strong Go development skills and experience building production backend services.
• Experience designing, building, or consuming REST or gRPC APIs in production environments.
• Working knowledge of Protocol Buffers, contract-first development, and code generation workflows.
• Understanding of service integration patterns, including synchronous communication and messaging approaches such as Pub/Sub or Kafka where applicable.
• Experience with relational or distributed data stores such as Cloud Spanner, and familiarity with caching using Redis.
• Proficiency with Git, code review practices, and GitLab CI or similar CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across API and service boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement API capabilities using Go, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers that support business workflows across customer, order, billing, catalog, mobile, and related domains
• Develop and evolve service endpoints, orchestration logic, and integration layers across multiple backend and legacy systems
• Integrate with internal and external systems using established architectural patterns, including SOAP, GraphQL, and enterprise adapter approaches where applicable
• Translate business requirements into Protocol Buffer contracts, Google AIP-aligned API designs, and reliable service implementations
• Expose platform APIs to internal consumer applications through well-defined service and gateway interfaces
• Address error handling, caching, and data consistency concerns across distributed service interactions involving Cloud Spanner, Redis, and related data stores
• Build and maintain automated tests using Go test frameworks to validate service behavior, integration paths, and contract expectations
• Support user-facing feature delivery through stable API contracts and collaboration with presentation-layer engineering teams
• Participate in platform modernization efforts, including migration from legacy integration patterns toward gRPC-based service delivery
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, and continuous improvement of engineering practices within GitLab CI-supported workflows

Skills

Go development

API design (REST/gRPC)

Protocol Buffers

Troubleshooting API boundaries

Git & code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)

Redis

Cloud Spanner

SOAP/GraphQL integration

Job description

Optimum Communications Inc. in Plano, Texas seeks a backend engineer to evolve our omni-channel API platform. You will design and implement Go-based services, expose REST and gRPC APIs, and map business needs into reliable contracts across systems.

Work with Cloud Spanner, Redis, and modern CI/CD on GitLab, collaborating with frontend and platform teams to deliver scalable API delivery and maintain high-quality service behavior.