Senior Go Backend Engineer - Scalable EdTech APIs

Teaching Strategies; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

401k

Flexible schedule

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Career development

Tech equipment

Downtown DC perks

Job summary

Teaching Strategies is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus in Denton, TX. You will design and evolve backend services using Go and PostgreSQL, build APIs, and lead technical initiatives from discovery to delivery.

You will mentor engineers, improve architecture, and collaborate across product, design, QA, and engineering to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Strong experience developing backend services with Go.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and production data considerations.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, service boundaries, and integration contracts.
• Experience working with distributed systems, caching, event-driven integrations, or asynchronous processing.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in complex systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.
• Strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, design, and quality teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services supporting planning and curriculum workflows.
• Build and evolve APIs, integration contracts, data models, and database migrations.
• Develop and optimize backend services using Go and PostgreSQL.
• Lead technical initiatives from discovery through delivery, including solution design, implementation, validation, and release.
• Troubleshoot production issues, performance bottlenecks, and complex cross-system behavior; implement durable solutions.
• Own the quality of releases, including testing, validation, deployment readiness, and post-release follow-through.
• Work closely with product, design, QA, and engineering partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences.
• Evaluate existing approaches and recommend pragmatic new solutions or technical directions that better serve customers and the product.
• Contribute to architecture, documentation, engineering standards, and practices that improve system maintainability and developer effectiveness.
• Participate in code reviews, planning, and architectural discussions.
• Mentor engineers and promote high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows thoughtfully to improve debugging, validation, automation, and delivery.

Skills

Go backend

PostgreSQL

APIs & contracts

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring

Communication

Architectural decisions

Tools

AWS

GraphQL

React

Job description

Teaching Strategies is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus in Denton, TX. You will design and evolve backend services using Go and PostgreSQL, build APIs, and lead technical initiatives from discovery to delivery.

You will mentor engineers, improve architecture, and collaborate across product, design, QA, and engineering to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture.