Remote-First Senior Backend Engineer (Go/Python, Microservices)

Syndio; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible vacation

Medical/dental/vision

Life insurance

Remote-first in US/Canada

Job summary

Syndio is hiring a Staff level Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems powering our core backend services. You will own systems end-to-end—from API design and data modeling to deploying resilient infrastructure and monitoring performance in production.

Join a high-autonomy team and contribute to real-time data pipelines, API design across REST/GraphQL/gRPC, and cloud infrastructure across GCP/AWS with Terraform and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating backend systems in production.
• Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems.
• Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization and schema migrations.
• Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka.
• Expertise designing production APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Infrastructure as Code via Terraform, and continuous delivery via GitHub Actions.
• Operational mindset: observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in Datadog.
• Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews.
• Own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python.
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
• Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
• Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs.
• Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog.

Skills

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

REST

GraphQL

gRPC

Kafka

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Terraform

Datadog observability

API design

Written communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Syndio is hiring a Staff level Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems powering our core backend services. You will own systems end-to-end—from API design and data modeling to deploying resilient infrastructure and monitoring performance in production.

Join a high-autonomy team and contribute to real-time data pipelines, API design across REST/GraphQL/gRPC, and cloud infrastructure across GCP/AWS with Terraform and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.