Senior Go Backend Architect - Scale & Reliability Leader

JobCubby; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 195,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental, vision coverage

$1200 annual HSA match

$1000 annual learning & development预算

Unlimited PTO

12 Week Parental Leave for all new_par

Hybrid working model - 3x a week in in

DoorDash monthly lunch stipend

One $500 Work from home set up stipend

Job summary

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer - Golang to help scale and harden our backend systems as the platform grows. You will own backend initiatives end-to-end, working across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and orchestration services to improve reliability and performance.

Reporting to the Chief Architect, you will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive observable metrics while collaborating with Product and other teams to translate business needs into durable

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Go for backend services.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale backend systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs.
• Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs.
• Familiarity with reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies.
• Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go
• Lead backend projects that improve reliability, resiliency, and performance
• Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives
• Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems
• Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
• Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process
• Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects

Skills

Strong proficiency in Go

Distributed systems concepts

API-first design

Problem-solving skills

High-scale backend experience

Relational databases (production)

Collaboration & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Go tooling

Job description

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer - Golang to help scale and harden our backend systems as the platform grows. You will own backend initiatives end-to-end, working across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and orchestration services to improve reliability and performance.

Reporting to the Chief Architect, you will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and drive observable metrics while collaborating with Product and other teams to translate business needs into durable