Senior Backend Engineer – Go Microservices, Multi-Region

Shipt, Inc.; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Discretionary vacation

Paid holidays

RSUs eligible

Job summary

Shipt, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Shopper Backend team. You will design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using Go, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka. You will own production systems, drive architecture decisions, and ship real-world features nationwide with minimal travel.

You will mentor peers, advocate best practices, and help shape the engineering culture of a high-performing team, collaborating across disciplines and time zones.

Qualifications

• 4+ years backend development experience in a cross-functional Agile environment.
• Experience building multi-region distributed architectures, microservices, or SOA with Go and Kafka.
• Design distributed data models and optimize queries in PostgreSQL, with caching (Redis).
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs for high-volume traffic.
• Mentorship: leading design sessions, code reviews, and communicating architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end production services from design to deployment.
• Drive architectural decisions and non-functional requirements for performance and reliability.
• Mentor and collaborate with peers; share solutions across the org.

Skills

Go

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Copilot

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Shipt, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Shopper Backend team. You will design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region services using Go, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka. You will own production systems, drive architecture decisions, and ship real-world features nationwide with minimal travel.

You will mentor peers, advocate best practices, and help shape the engineering culture of a high-performing team, collaborating across disciplines and time zones.