Senior Backend Engineer — Go/AWS, Remote, Equity

Future; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) plan

Flexible PTO

Future Membership

Wellness stipend

Remote First

Job summary

Future is building a personalized health guidance system. We’re hiring backend engineers to design, implement, and scale core APIs, data pipelines, and services that power our platform.

You’ll collaborate with product, data, and frontend teams in a fast-moving startup. You have 8+ years in production backend/API development, strong Go/AWS/Postgres skills, and experience with microservices and on-call ownership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production backend/API development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Go, AWS, and PostgreSQL in scale-out services.
• Experience with microservice architectures and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test APIs for new products and services.
• Maintain and optimize large-scale backend systems with DB performance in mind.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable infrastructure.
• Stay current with new technologies and practices, mentoring peers.
• Serve as on-call engineer about one week per month.

Skills

Go

AWS

Docker (ECS)

PostgreSQL (RDS)

API design

Microservices

Unit testing

On-call

ETL

Job description

Future is building a personalized health guidance system. We’re hiring backend engineers to design, implement, and scale core APIs, data pipelines, and services that power our platform.

You’ll collaborate with product, data, and frontend teams in a fast-moving startup. You have 8+ years in production backend/API development, strong Go/AWS/Postgres skills, and experience with microservices and on-call ownership.