Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, 4-Day Week

AgileGrid Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobrapido is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain cloud-native services for its communications platform. You will work in a small engineering team, contribute across the software lifecycle, and participate in on-call responsibilities and escalations.

You will focus on Golang-based APIs, AWS-based infrastructure, and scalable microservices, while collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, production-ready software.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend focus with Golang in production systems.
• Experience designing solutions on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch) and building scalable microservices.
• Experience with relational databases and NoSQL datastores.
• Collaborative with distributed teams using Git/GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain secure, scalable APIs and routing logic using Golang.
• Own the full software development lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver features using Shape Up framework.
• Improve AWS infrastructure through automation and maintain reliability in high-volume environments.
• Mentor juniors and share practical technical guidance.

Skills

Golang backend development

AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch)

Microservices architecture

REST/gRPC APIs

Relational databases & NoSQL

Git & GitHub collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Jobrapido is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain cloud-native services for its communications platform. You will work in a small engineering team, contribute across the software lifecycle, and participate in on-call responsibilities and escalations.

You will focus on Golang-based APIs, AWS-based infrastructure, and scalable microservices, while collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, production-ready software.