Junior Backend Go Engineer - Growth Strategy Learning Time

Best Buy; Pomona (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Best Buy in Pomona, CA is hiring for a junior backend/engineering role focused on Go and strategic planning. The position offers a base salary range of $75,000–$107,000 with team support and clear opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities include maintaining Ansible schemas, building accessible interfaces, and integrating services into the stack. You’ll work with Go APIs across Pomona teams and help optimize performance while documenting technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience aligning technical work with business goals.
• Ability to translate complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration across teams and disciplines.
• Familiarity with web back-end work and API design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain backward-compatible Ansible schemas to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Git.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Best Buy stack.
• Lead a Git feature through code freeze without destabilizing the product.
• Explain Strategic Planning tradeoffs to executives in clear terms.
• Design Go APIs used by Pomona, CA teams next year.
• Reduce latency on critical paths for better user experience.
• Document decisions, architecture, and APIs for the org.

Skills

Go language

AWS

Strategic Planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Selenium

Tools

Ansible

Git

Tailwind CSS

Selenium

Job description

Best Buy in Pomona, CA is hiring for a junior backend/engineering role focused on Go and strategic planning. The position offers a base salary range of $75,000–$107,000 with team support and clear opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities include maintaining Ansible schemas, building accessible interfaces, and integrating services into the stack. You’ll work with Go APIs across Pomona teams and help optimize performance while documenting technical decisions.