Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

• Focus: Building and evolving scalable, reliable backend services in Go

Description

You’ll design, build, and evolve high-traffic, business-critical backend services for a secure, scalable, high-performance platform. You’ll lead architectural decisions, identify performance bottlenecks, and own complex technical initiatives end-to-end—from design to production rollout. You’ll write clean, well-tested, production-grade code and help raise engineering standards across the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve high-traffic backend services (primarily in Go)

• Influence architectural decisions across domain modeling, service boundaries, infrastructure, and deployment

• Drive the evolution of the service platform with senior/lead engineers

• Identify scalability and performance challenges and propose pragmatic long-term solutions

• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end

• Write clean, well-tested production-grade code and improve engineering standards

Requirements

• Strong experience building production-grade backend systems

• Solid understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and API design

• Experience with databases, messaging systems, and service-oriented or event-driven architectures

• Ability to reason about concurrency, performance, and reliability

• Confidence participating in architectural discussions and technical decision-making

Benefits

• Growth and learning opportunities (learning time, conferences, online learning, books)

• Health and wellness benefits (health insurance, mental health checks, wellness activities)

• Tools of your choice

• Community and celebrations (yearly workation, team get-togethers)

• Commuting support (public transport cost compensation)

• Work-life balance (office-friendly with up to two remote days; WFA policy)

• Premium Surfshark accounts

• Gross salary: 24,000–33,400 PLN/month (may vary by skills and experience)