Senior Backend-Driven Full Stack Engineer | Go & PostgreSQL

Teaching Strategies, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness insurance benefits

401k with employer match

Flexible work environment

Unlimited paid time off (including hol

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance, professional dev.

Best in class technology equipment

Penthouse suite in downtown DC near DC

Job summary

Teaching Strategies, LLC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus to design and evolve services, data models, APIs, and release practices behind our product line for educators. You will collaborate with frontend engineers and contribute to user-facing work as needed.

The ideal candidate has deep backend engineering judgment, leads complex initiatives, communicates decisions clearly, and mentors team members while aligning technical direction with product goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Strong experience developing backend services with Go.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and production data considerations.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, service boundaries, and integration contracts.
• Experience working with distributed systems, caching, event-driven integrations, or asynchronous processing.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in complex systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.
• Strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, design, and quality teams.
• Ability to identify risks, communicate tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders informed without creating unnecessary overhead.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic product delivery.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and modern developer productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services supporting planning and curriculum workflows.
• Build and evolve APIs, integration contracts, data models, and database migrations.
• Develop and optimize backend services using Go and PostgreSQL.
• Lead technical initiatives from discovery through delivery, including solution design, implementation, validation, and release.
• Troubleshoot production issues, performance bottlenecks, and complex cross-system behavior; implement durable solutions.
• Own the quality of releases, including testing, validation, deployment readiness, and post-release follow-through.
• Work closely with product, design, QA, and engineering partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences.
• Evaluate existing approaches and recommend pragmatic new solutions or technical directions that better serve customers and the product.
• Contribute to architecture, documentation, engineering standards, and practices that improve system maintainability and developer effectiveness.
• Participate in code reviews, planning, and architectural discussions.
• Mentor engineers and promote high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows thoughtfully to improve debugging, validation, automation, and delivery.

Skills

Backend Go

PostgreSQL

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Leadership

Debugging

Communication

Mentoring

AI tooling

Tools

React

GraphQL

AWS

Job description

Teaching Strategies, LLC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus to design and evolve services, data models, APIs, and release practices behind our product line for educators. You will collaborate with frontend engineers and contribute to user-facing work as needed.

The ideal candidate has deep backend engineering judgment, leads complex initiatives, communicates decisions clearly, and mentors team members while aligning technical direction with product goals.