[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer – Golang
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Solomon Page is a specialty niche provider of staffing and executive search solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong Golang expertise to design, build, and maintain backend systems for a modern e-commerce marketplace, focusing on scalable API development and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Design, develop, and maintain clean, secure, and well-documented REST and gRPC APIs
- Lead backend architecture discussions and provide technical direction across engineering teams
- Review pull requests and mentor engineers by providing technical guidance and best practices
- Develop and maintain Airflow data pipelines using Python DAGs for real-time and batch processing
- Build, optimize, and support distributed backend services and event-driven systems
- Implement scalable messaging and streaming solutions using Kafka or similar platforms
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes
- Contribute to CI/CD automation and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Ensure backend services are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable
Skills
- 7+ years of backend software engineering experience
- 3+ years of production experience developing applications with Golang
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems on GCP or similar cloud platforms
- Strong experience building enterprise-grade REST and gRPC APIs
- Hands-on experience developing Airflow DAGs using Python or similar workflow orchestration tools
- Experience building and supporting batch processing and event-driven architectures
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience working in e-commerce or marketplace platforms
- Hands-on experience with GCP-native services, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Run
- Experience designing highly scalable, cloud-native backend systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture, performance optimization, and distributed computing
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- 401(k)
- Direct deposit
- Commuter benefits
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