Senior Golang Backend Engineer: Scale & Own Systems

ShuruTech; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Shuru Technologies Private Limited is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build scalable backend systems, own design decisions, and mentor teammates. You will work with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable services using Go and modern microservice patterns.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cloud deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, and high-performance engineering in a flexible (remote) environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang in production-grade backend systems.
• Knowledge of goroutines, channels, context management, and synchronization.
• Experience with designing scalable architectures and system design.
• Experience with databases, data modeling, query optimization, and REST/gRPC API development.
• Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of security, authentication, authorization, and secure data handling.
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred; AWS acceptable).
• Ability to work independently and mentor teammates in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Own backend development from architecture through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Build products from scratch and scale them as usage and business complexity grow.
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable backend services using Golang (Go).
• Design robust REST/gRPC APIs, database models, microservices, and event-driven workflows.
• Build distributed systems with fault tolerance, reliable communication, and appropriate data consistency guarantees.
• Make architecture decisions balancing performance, scalability, consistency, security, and maintainability.
• Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
• Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams and take ownership of delivery and product outcomes.

Skills

Golang

Go concurrency

REST/gRPC

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Security/data handling

CI/CD

Architecture design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Shuru Technologies Private Limited is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build scalable backend systems, own design decisions, and mentor teammates. You will work with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable services using Go and modern microservice patterns.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cloud deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, and high-performance engineering in a flexible (remote) environment.