Senior Staff Engineer - Golang New Austin, Texas

Grocery TV; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 195,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

HSA match

Learning & development budget

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Hybrid in-office 3x weekly

Lunch stipend (DoorDash)

Work-from-home setup stipend

Job summary

Grocery TV is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to scale and harden our Go-based backend as the platform grows. You will lead backend initiatives end-to-end, working across APIs, delivery pipelines, and orchestration services to improve resiliency, performance, and reliability.

The role requires strong system design judgment and collaboration with Product and other engineers to align with business goals while driving architectural excellence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Strong Go proficiency for backend services.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale backend systems.
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs.
• Experience building API-first services and customer-facing APIs.
• Familiarity with reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies.
• Experience with relational databases in production environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills for complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go.
• Lead backend projects to improve reliability, resiliency, and performance.
• Design and evolve API-first services for customer-facing and internal apps.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives.
• Partner with Product to plan and execute backend work aligned with goals.
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems.
• Collaborate through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Drive observability and incident follow-ups; promote testing practices.

Skills

Go backend

Backend services

Distributed systems

API-first design

System design

Performance tuning

Pairing & code reviews

Education

Bachelors in CS or CE

Job description

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer - Golang

Work Location: Austin, TX

Reports to: Chief Architect

Level: 7

Salary Range: $195,000 - $215,000

About Grocery TV

Grocery TV is a leading in-store retail media platform. Over 120 retailers partner with Grocery TV to modernize stores and drive incremental revenue while delivering a more engaging shopping experience. We manage the complexities of operating an in-store media network, allowing retailers to focus on serving customers. Reaching 1 in 4 Americans across 6,500+ stores, Grocery TV connects brands with shoppers at the moment of decision, where 90% of purchases take place. For more information, visit www.grocerytv.com.

About The Role

This engineer will play a critical role in scaling and hardening Grocery TV’s backend systems as the platform continues to grow. This engineer will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability. Operating at a Senior Staff Engineering level, this role is expected to lead and execute backend initiatives end-to-end, bring strong system design judgment, and translate business and product needs into durable technical solutions. This position partners closely with Product and other Software Engineers to ensure backend systems support both current execution and long-term platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go
• Lead implementation of 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

Requirements / Experience

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Strong 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

Interview Process

• Introduction to Hiring Manager: Meet with the hiring manager (virtually or in‑person) to share your background, learn about the role, and align on logistics.
• Technical Interview Split in 2: Systems Design and Coding. Visit our office for a technical interview that relates to the role. You’ll respond to a prompt, and our team will ask questions to better understand your skillset.
• Virtual Values Interview: Meet with two Grocery TV employees who you’ll work cross‑functionally with to discuss team collaboration. This is a perfect opportunity for you to ask us questions, too!
• Virtual Leadership Interview: Lastly, all candidates have a final interview with a member of the leadership team. This conversation gives you the opportunity to reflect on the interview process and affirm this is the right role for you.

Why Grocery TV?

• 100% medical, dental, vision coverage options for employees
• $1200 annual HSA match
• $1000 annual learning & development budget per employee
• Unlimited PTO
• 12 Week Parental Leave for all new parents
• Hybrid working model - 3x a week in office
• DoorDash monthly lunch stipend
• One $500 Work from home set up stipend

Awards & Recognition

• 2026 Built In Best Of Awards
• 2026 Best Place for Parents

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