Senior Go Backend Engineer – AI-Driven Pre-Sales Platform

bestow; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Flexible PTO and parental leave

100% premiums for medical, dental, and

Lifestyle stipend for wellbeing

Remote work options with Dallas office

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Bestow is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application submission tools before checkout. You will partner with the App & Checkout teams to ensure tight surface integration and take on architectural leadership responsibilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, robust API design, and daily use of AI coding tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience.
• Professional Go experience, owning services end to end.
• Experience with distributed systems or microservices and API design (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, Protobuf).
• Proficient with Docker for local development and with CI/CD as a default practice.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application-submission tools used before checkout.
• Partner closely with the App & Checkout teams given the tight coupling between surfaces.
• Take on architectural-leadership work, proposing direction beyond just execution.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD practices

Mentorship/architecture

Tools

Docker

OpenAPI/Protobuf

gRPC

CI/CD tooling

AI coding tools (Copilot/C Claude Code/Cursor)

Job description

Bestow is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and scale Go services powering agent quoting, configuration, and application submission tools before checkout. You will partner with the App & Checkout teams to ensure tight surface integration and take on architectural leadership responsibilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on ownership, robust API design, and daily use of AI coding tools to improve engineering outcomes.