Lead Golang Backend Engineer – Scale & Reliability

Grocery-Tv; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 195,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model - 3x a week in in

DoorDash monthly lunch stipend

Work from home setup stipend $500

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Grocery TV, based in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer specialized in Go to scale and harden our backend systems as the platform grows.

In this role you will own end-to-end backend initiatives, design API-first services, and partner with Product to deliver reliable, high-performance infrastructure across distributed services.

You will lead initiatives, mentor teammates, and drive observability, incident response, and on-call excellence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs.
• Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs.
• Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies.
• Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go
• Lead backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance
• Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives
• Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems
• Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
• Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process
• Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

API design

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Job description

Grocery TV, based in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer specialized in Go to scale and harden our backend systems as the platform grows.

In this role you will own end-to-end backend initiatives, design API-first services, and partner with Product to deliver reliable, high-performance infrastructure across distributed services.

You will lead initiatives, mentor teammates, and drive observability, incident response, and on-call excellence.