Remote Golang Backend Engineer — Own an AWS Project

Jobot; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision coverage

Equity + options in a promising startup

Fully remote + asynchronous culture

Job summary

A fully remote SaaS startup is seeking a backend engineer to design and ship Golang services. You will build solutions on AWS and own event-driven pipelines, contributing to a critical project from the ground up. Ideal candidates will have 3–6 years experience, fluency in Golang, and a background in startup environments. This position offers flexibility in a well-funded company with excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience working on SaaS products.
• Past startup experience, ideally owning projects with a lean team.
• Comfort working remotely with self-direction as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship Golang services.
• Build on AWS with IaC and CI/CD.
• Own event-driven pipelines for telemetry and automations.

Skills

Backend fluency with Golang

Experience with AWS services

Self-direction and remote work capability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch)

Job description

A fully remote SaaS startup is seeking a backend engineer to design and ship Golang services. You will build solutions on AWS and own event-driven pipelines, contributing to a critical project from the ground up. Ideal candidates will have 3–6 years experience, fluency in Golang, and a background in startup environments. This position offers flexibility in a well-funded company with excellent benefits.