Senior Backend Engineer (Go) — Remote EdTech Impact

Teaching Strategies, LLC; Denton, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with employer match

Flexible work environment

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Career development

Equity program

Job summary

Teaching Strategies, LLC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus to design and evolve the services that power our edtech platform. You will collaborate with frontend engineers and product teams to deliver robust APIs, data models, and scalable backend systems.

The ideal candidate has deep Go experience, strong PostgreSQL skills, and a proven track record leading technical initiatives while balancing pragmatic product delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems.

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

Go backend

PostgreSQL

APIs & contracts

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

Debugging

Code reviews

Team mentoring

Architecture decisions

Communication

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

React

TypeScript

AWS

GraphQL

Job description

Teaching Strategies, LLC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus to design and evolve the services that power our edtech platform. You will collaborate with frontend engineers and product teams to deliver robust APIs, data models, and scalable backend systems.

The ideal candidate has deep Go experience, strong PostgreSQL skills, and a proven track record leading technical initiatives while balancing pragmatic product delivery.