Senior Go Backend Engineer — Payments & Blockchain

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Augmented in Miami, FL is seeking a senior Go engineer to design and own core backend services for payments and digital-asset transfers. You will build high-throughput, low-latency systems, integrate with blockchains and wallets, and collaborate with product, compliance and security to uphold strong engineering standards.

You will own API design, data integrity, and reliability while helping scale a fintech platform that bridges traditional rails with blockchain networks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering, with 3+ years writing production Go
• Hands-on experience building on blockchains and interacting with nodes/RPC
• Experience in financial systems where accuracy matters (payments, ledgers, settlement)
• Strong grasp of distributed systems concepts like idempotency and queues
• Solid SQL and data modeling for transactional workloads
• Production cloud experience (AWS or GCP), Docker and Kubernetes
• Security-first mindset around keys, secrets and sensitive financial data
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to own decisions with non-engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run high-throughput, low-latency Go services for payments and asset transfers
• Develop and maintain double-entry ledger and reconciliation systems
• Integrate with blockchain nodes and RPC providers for transactions and indexing
• Integrate with custody wallets and banking/payment partners
• Design APIs (REST/gRPC) and event flows with reliability and exactly-once semantics
• Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, on‑call, post‑mortems
• Embed security and compliance via audit trails, access controls and AML/KYC measures
• Review code, mentor engineers and drive technical design for new products

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

SQL (PostgreSQL)

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security best practices

API design

Leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Git

Job description

Augmented in Miami, FL is seeking a senior Go engineer to design and own core backend services for payments and digital-asset transfers. You will build high-throughput, low-latency systems, integrate with blockchains and wallets, and collaborate with product, compliance and security to uphold strong engineering standards.

You will own API design, data integrity, and reliability while helping scale a fintech platform that bridges traditional rails with blockchain networks.