Senior Backend Engineer - Go, AI, and Kubernetes

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

Job summary

Readdle is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own features end to end, from design and decomposition to production delivery. You’ll architect robust Go services within a distributed system, scaling databases, syncing data across devices, and integrating with external services.

AI-assisted development accelerates work across the stack. You’ll start with backend work and gradually contribute to client-side code as you become familiar with the product, collaborating with multiple teams to ship

Qualifications

• Solid Go experience with hands-on coding.
• Experience building large features with ownership from idea to production.
• Strong knowledge of database optimization and working with large tables.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end: design, decompose, estimate, coordinate with teammates, and ship to production.
• Build and evolve Go services that handle sync, integrations, and data processing at scale.
• Optimise queries and data access on large MySQL tables, and design async processing flows.
• Keep the system healthy: investigate alerts, dig into logs in Kibana, metrics in Grafana, and pods in Kubernetes.
• Test your changes before they reach users, and review code in backend repositories.
• Contribute to frontend parts of features when needed across desktop and iOS clients using AI agents.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Backend design

Database optimization

AI tooling

Frontend curiosity

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

Go tooling

MySQL

Kubernetes

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

Readdle is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own features end to end, from design and decomposition to production delivery. You’ll architect robust Go services within a distributed system, scaling databases, syncing data across devices, and integrating with external services.

AI-assisted development accelerates work across the stack. You’ll start with backend work and gradually contribute to client-side code as you become familiar with the product, collaborating with multiple teams to ship