Remote Golang Backend Architect — VPN & Scale

Point Wild; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Point Wild is seeking a hands-on VPN Backend Architect to lead our backend team, spending 70% of time writing Golang code. You will design secure, scalable systems serving millions of users, guide an engineering team, and own architecture decisions for distributed services at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance targets, and collaborate with security, infra, and product teams while delivering reliable, high‑performance backend solutions in the cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of backend engineering & architecture experience, 5+ years in Golang.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on VPN protocol knowledge and low-latency networking.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture of the backend platform serving millions of users.
• Design and build highly available distributed services in Golang.
• Lead code reviews and champion testing discipline, clean architecture, and best practices.
• Partner with the SDK team to integrate client features into backend systems.
• Mentor engineers and grow the technical depth of the team.
• Drive the team to meet performance targets and ship reliable products.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Mentoring

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Point Wild is seeking a hands-on VPN Backend Architect to lead our backend team, spending 70% of time writing Golang code. You will design secure, scalable systems serving millions of users, guide an engineering team, and own architecture decisions for distributed services at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance targets, and collaborate with security, infra, and product teams while delivering reliable, high‑performance backend solutions in the cloud.