Senior Go Backend Engineer — Lead, Scale & CI/CD

Semrush; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Hobby & team building budget allowance

Employee Support Program

Loss of family member financial aid

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Semrush is seeking a senior backend engineer to drive the development of complex features and to ensure the overall quality and performance of the backend codebase. You will design and maintain scalable APIs and lead code reviews in a fast-growing environment.

You will mentor mid-level and junior developers, improve CI/CD pipelines, and champion best practices across distributed systems and high-performance services. This role emphasizes collaboration and technical excellence at Semrush.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of backend programming experience with Go (2+ years in Go current).
• Expert in Golang with performance tuning and distributed systems.
• Strong API design skills and secure, scalable architectures.
• Good SQL knowledge, PostgreSQL experience and BigQuery a plus.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of complex features and projects.
• Ensure the overall quality and performance of the backend codebase.
• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Lead code reviews and foster a culture of quality.
• Design and maintain comprehensive CI/CD pipelines.
• Handle and resolve critical incidents and provide post-mortem analysis.
• Mentor mid-level and junior developers, providing guidance and support.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for the development process and codebase.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Distributed systems

APIs

SQL

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Code reviews

CI/CD

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Semrush is seeking a senior backend engineer to drive the development of complex features and to ensure the overall quality and performance of the backend codebase. You will design and maintain scalable APIs and lead code reviews in a fast-growing environment.

You will mentor mid-level and junior developers, improve CI/CD pipelines, and champion best practices across distributed systems and high-performance services. This role emphasizes collaboration and technical excellence at Semrush.