Senior Backend Engineer — High-Throughput Cloud (Go/Java)

Verve; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Life, and Income Protection

TaxSaver commuter tickets

23 vacation days + 3 wellness days

Mental health support

Training budget & webinars

Job summary

Verve is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable, high-throughput services. You will mentor Dublin-based engineers, own critical systems from design through CI/CD, and partner with product stakeholders to translate requirements into robust architecture.

Expect hands-on work with Go/Java, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), Kubernetes, and modern observability stacks, while driving performance and reliability for a large-scale ad-tech platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering in distributed backend systems.
• Experience in Go or Java with strong concurrency and perf profiling.
• Architecting and scaling high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Hands-on with GCP/AWS and Kubernetes/Docker at scale.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), IaC (Terraform) and observability stacks (Grafana/ELK).
• Practical use of agentic-assisted development tools to boost velocity.
• Bonus: ad-tech/fintech or high-traffic environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of high-throughput backend components.
• Mentor Dublin team; review code and set engineering standards.
• Own critical services from design to CI/CD deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with PMs to translate requirements into scalable architecture.
• Drive incident resolutions and optimize infrastructure footprint.

Skills

Distributed backend

Go/Java

Concurrency

Memory management

Performance profiling

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

ArgoCD

Terraform

Observability (Grafana/ELK)

Agentic-assisted tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Terraform

Grafana

ELK

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

Job description

Verve is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable, high-throughput services. You will mentor Dublin-based engineers, own critical systems from design through CI/CD, and partner with product stakeholders to translate requirements into robust architecture.

Expect hands-on work with Go/Java, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), Kubernetes, and modern observability stacks, while driving performance and reliability for a large-scale ad-tech platform.