Senior Core Backend Engineer — Go, Scalable Systems (Remote)

Route; California, Lehi (MO, UT); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote or hybrid work arrangements

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Growth opportunities and learning &发展

Job summary

Route is seeking a Sr. Core Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services powering the post-purchase experience.

You will work on Orders, Tracking, and merchant APIs, partnering with product managers and engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. You will own critical services, design distributed systems, and enhance observability while mentoring teammates and contributing to architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and scaling backend systems.
• Experience deploying and supporting distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency with Go or willingness to learn Go quickly.
• Experience building cloud-based services, preferably in AWS.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., CockroachDB, DynamoDB).
• Experience designing scalable APIs (REST/GraphQL).
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and high-volume data processing.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring/observability (e.g., Grafana).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, system design, and scalable architectures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; mentoring teammates.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain highly scalable backend services using Go.
• Own services supporting core product areas (Orders, Tracking, Email Parsing, etc.).
• Design distributed systems and event-driven architectures for high throughput.
• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs for internal and external use.
• Improve integrations with merchant platforms and third-party APIs.
• Tune performance, reliability, and observability of production services.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in architectural decisions and improve engineering standards.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

AWS

REST/GraphQL

Event-driven

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

DynamoDB

Job description

Route is seeking a Sr. Core Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services powering the post-purchase experience.

You will work on Orders, Tracking, and merchant APIs, partnering with product managers and engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. You will own critical services, design distributed systems, and enhance observability while mentoring teammates and contributing to architectural decisions.