Senior Go Platform Engineer – Scalable, Event-Driven Backend

Specialized; Morgan Hill (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plan

401(k) matching

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off

Career development support

Fitness & wellness reimbursement

Pro-deal discounts

Birthday/Family benefits

Job summary

Specialized is seeking a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to join the Global Tech team in California. You will design distributed systems, build scalable backend services, and contribute to an event-driven platform that supports a wide range of digital products and internal business functions.

You'll collaborate with multiple engineering and business teams, deploy services to AWS, and write production-ready Go code.

Qualifications

• Experience with Golang, Java, or C++ and distributed systems.
• Strong REST API design and web fundamentals.
• Experience deploying services to AWS and containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed systems built from iteratively-shipped components.
• Contribute to an event system enabling loose coupling across services.
• Build tools to aid frontline support staff and maintain the registration system.

Skills

Golang

Event-driven systems

REST API design

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Distributed systems

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

HTMX

Job description

Specialized is seeking a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to join the Global Tech team in California. You will design distributed systems, build scalable backend services, and contribute to an event-driven platform that supports a wide range of digital products and internal business functions.

You'll collaborate with multiple engineering and business teams, deploy services to AWS, and write production-ready Go code.