Senior Go Backend Engineer – Scale & Reliability (Hybrid)

Gtv; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

HSA match $1200

Learning & development budget

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Hybrid work model

Lunch stipend

Home office stipend

Job summary

Grocery TV is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II specialized in Go to scale and harden our backend systems in Austin, TX. You will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve resiliency, performance, and reliability.

Collaborate with Product and other engineers to translate business needs into durable technical solutions. You will design and build high-scale backend services, drive reliability improvements, and lead testing efforts through

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technology degree.
• Proficiency in Go for building backend services.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs.
• Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs.
• Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies.
• Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go.
• Implement backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance.
• Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives.
• Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals.
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process.
• Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects.

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

API design

Relational databases

System reliability

Performance tuning

Code reviews

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Job description

Grocery TV is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II specialized in Go to scale and harden our backend systems in Austin, TX. You will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve resiliency, performance, and reliability.

Collaborate with Product and other engineers to translate business needs into durable technical solutions. You will design and build high-scale backend services, drive reliability improvements, and lead testing efforts through