Remote Go Backend Engineer - Financial Microservices

AtomicVest; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within LATAM

Job summary

AtomicVest is seeking a backend engineer to join a remote team building distributed financial infrastructure that moves real money across global markets. You’ll contribute to a cloud-native microservices platform and collaborate with operations, compliance, and legal to ensure correctness and reliability.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and building scalable services with Go, gRPC, and a modern tech stack across AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed data stores.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• CS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
• Demonstrated success delivering high-quality production services and systems.
• Track record of building reliable services at scale.
• Comfort working autonomously with minimal direction in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems and REST/gRPC APIs in Go, making architectural decisions that affect how money moves.
• Enable real-time deposits so end users can invest the moment they transfer funds.
• Build multi-currency settlement and international clearing flows for European expansion.
• Design infrastructure for stablecoin-based account funding in Latin American markets.
• Scale microservices architecture across custody, trading, and portfolio management as partner volume grows.
• Work with Kubernetes on EKS, Istio, Temporal for fault-tolerant workflows, PostgreSQL, and AWS Kinesis.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Jaeger

AWS Kinesis

Istio

Job description

AtomicVest is seeking a backend engineer to join a remote team building distributed financial infrastructure that moves real money across global markets. You’ll contribute to a cloud-native microservices platform and collaborate with operations, compliance, and legal to ensure correctness and reliability.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and building scalable services with Go, gRPC, and a modern tech stack across AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed data stores.