Senior Backend Engineer for Post-Purchase Platform (Go)

Route; United States; Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Remote or hybrid work arrangements

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Growth opportunities

Learning & development

DEI programs & events

Stock options

Job summary

Route is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale our post-purchase backend services. You will work on the Orders, Tracking, and merchant APIs, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, high‑volume solutions.

You’ll mentor other engineers, establish best practices, and influence architectural decisions while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and performance across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience designing, building, and scaling systems.
• Experience with Go or willingness to learn Go and ship production services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain highly scalable backend services using Go.
• Own critical services across Orders, Tracking, and related backend platforms.
• Design and evolve distributed systems and event-driven architectures for high throughput.
• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs for internal and partner use.
• Develop integrations with merchant platforms, carriers, and third-party APIs.
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability of production services.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and best practices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards.

Skills

Go

AWS

Relational Databases

NoSQL Databases

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Event-driven architectures

Terraform

Grafana

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

CockroachDB

DynamoDB

Job description

Route is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale our post-purchase backend services. You will work on the Orders, Tracking, and merchant APIs, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, high‑volume solutions.

You’ll mentor other engineers, establish best practices, and influence architectural decisions while maintaining a strong focus on reliability and performance across distributed systems.