Senior Go Backend Engineer — Scale Omnichannel Platforms

Bash; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Growth

Top pay

Flexible time

Shopping perks

Job summary

Bash in Cape Town, ZA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Go. You will own backend services, build scalable pipelines, and collaborate across product and platform teams to deliver reliable online shopping experiences.

The role emphasizes strong systems design, observability, and fast iteration in a high-traffic environment, including order tracking, pricing, and integrations with external services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems.
• Strong in distributed systems and data structures.
• Experience with Go and at least one other language is fine.
• Ability to ship features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Search and discovery systems that are fast and relevant.
• Event-driven pipelines with Kafka to sync product data.
• Cart and checkout logic with pricing consistency.
• Integrations with external systems.
• Post-purchase tooling like order tracking and notifications.

Skills

Go

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Observability

End-to-end delivery

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Bash in Cape Town, ZA is hiring a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Go. You will own backend services, build scalable pipelines, and collaborate across product and platform teams to deliver reliable online shopping experiences.

The role emphasizes strong systems design, observability, and fast iteration in a high-traffic environment, including order tracking, pricing, and integrations with external services.