Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang): Designs and implements features and tools ensuring stability and usability with an accent on distributed systems, scalability, resilience and security. Focus on architecture design, implementation, and issue resolution.

Company

hirify.global Software infuses core business operations with intelligence to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient.

What you will do

• Design, prototype, and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability.
• Collaborate with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others.
• Lead and execute large-scale projects, ensuring the reliable delivery of key features from design through full implementation and troubleshooting.
• Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones.
• Debug and resolve complex issues to improve the quality and stability of products or solutions.
• Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes.

Requirements

• You have at least 10+ years of experience as an engineer.
• You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang and Ruby specifically.
• You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
• Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools to implement robust observability practices that prioritize metrics, logging and tracing for high reliability and performance.
• Intentional focus on stakeholder management and effective communication, fostering trust and relationship-building across diverse teams.

Nice to have

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
• You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships.
• Encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
• Growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company.