Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Go): Building a gamified developer platform empowering coders to compete in software engineering challenges with an accent on high volumes of user interactions and real-time competition data. Focus on optimizing backend performance, reliability, and scalability to support rapid growth and evolving product requirements.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, United States

Company

hirify.global is building a gamified developer platform empowering tens of thousands of coders to compete in exciting software engineering challenges.

What you will do

• Lead technical discussions and guide architectural decisions across backend systems.
• Architect robust infrastructure to efficiently handle high volumes of user interactions and data processing.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Optimize backend performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish backend engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing APIs and backend services using Go.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services on AWS.
• Proficiency with IaaC tools (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise designing relational database schemas, optimizing SQL queries, and managing database performance and integrity.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes and orchestration of containerized applications.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience designing and scaling data pipelines to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
• Worked with secure code execution environments and sandboxing techniques.
• Interest or experience in gamification or developer-focused platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Passionate, fast-moving team.
• Dedicated to solving challenging technical problems.
• Shaping the foundations to support the collective effort of developers worldwide.