Senior Go Backend Engineer for Real-Time Platform

Uniting Holding; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Catered lunches

Coffee bar

Job summary

Impact Scale is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) to help build and scale our real-time performance management platform. You will own backend services, collaborate with senior engineers, and deliver production-ready solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You enjoy high-performance systems, solving complex problems, and writing clean, testable code. The role requires Go expertise, REST API design, and experience with microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building backend apps in Go.
• Experience with REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Familiarity with event-driven or microservice architectures and message brokers.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Experience containerizing apps with Docker.
• Knowledge of concurrency and backend performance optimization.
• Experience collaborating in teams with Git and code reviews.
• Russian or Ukrainian language fluency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop new backend features and services using Go.
• Build and maintain APIs and integrations with external partners.
• Implement new capabilities within an event-driven microservice platform.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code; participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of the platform.

Skills

Go backend

REST APIs

Event-driven microservices

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Git & code reviews

Russian/Ukrainian

Tools

NATS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Impact Scale is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) to help build and scale our real-time performance management platform. You will own backend services, collaborate with senior engineers, and deliver production-ready solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You enjoy high-performance systems, solving complex problems, and writing clean, testable code. The role requires Go expertise, REST API design, and experience with microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker.