Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Location: Fully remote with autonomy over location; candidates must be based in a European time zone. Optional work from the Vienna office and participation in office weeks three times a year.

Company

refurbed operates a profitable European marketplace for refurbished products, active in 23 European countries.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services powering the mobile app and marketplace.
• Own production operations, monitoring, reliability, and performance of backend systems.
• Review API and service designs across squads to ensure compatibility with mobile app constraints, release cycles, latency requirements, and offline behavior.
• Integrate third-party systems and APIs and develop new features and services.
• Establish engineering standards, document solutions, and contribute to clear, maintainable code.
• Mentor junior colleagues, onboard new joiners, and collaborate with engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing and building scalable backend services in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Go and deep knowledge of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Strong SQL and relational database design skills.
• Experience building or maintaining a native mobile app and understanding mobile API design, versioning, backward compatibility, release cycles, latency, and offline behavior.
• Comfort with JavaScript and TypeScript, or the ability to quickly learn Node.
• Excellent English skills and residence in a European time zone are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Node and frontend applications.
• Computer Science degree or related education, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience reviewing designs and guiding engineers across squads.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible self-organization and the option to work from the Vienna office.
• Office weeks take place three times per year with team-building events and on-site workshops.
• Department learning budget for courses, conferences, and other development opportunities.
• Private sessions with experts supporting personal growth and mental health.
• Internal workshops, transparent collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing.