Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Go): Designing and building distributed systems that help customers send timely, relevant messages at scale with an accent on reliability, performance, and scalability. Focus on collaborating across teams to debug issues and deliver reliable solutions.

Location: Americas Remote

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000

Company

Over 7,500 companies use our platform to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed systems in Go that help customers send timely, relevant messages at scale
• Collaborate across teams to debug issues and deliver reliable solutions
• Own problems end to end - from architecture and schema design to testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing your progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
• Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems in Go
• Comfort working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
• Familiarity with relational databases (we use MySQL) and an understanding of performance tradeoffs
• Experience with observability tooling and operating production systems
• A bias for action over perfection, and pride in owning technical decisions