Senior Backend Engineer, Golang

Role Overview

• Design, implement, and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance, scalability, or maintainability.
• Work with product, data, vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines.
• Monitor and improve system health, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures.
• Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and implement best practices to increase engineering efficiency. Reduce manual operational workload by at least 10% per year through automation.
• Collaborate with the team to propose at least two technical initiatives per year that align with the team's roadmap.
• Tackle high-impact engineering challenges, conduct post-mortems, and implement long-term fixes. Reduce repeat incidents by 10% annually through improved monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
• Champion engineering culture: Act as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Lead at least one technical discussion, hackathon, or knowledge-sharing event per quarter to strengthen team engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in STEM (or equivalent) with 5+ years of professional backend experience.
• Professional proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala).
• Proven track record building distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) for IoT or high-volume telemetry.
• Hands-on experience with communication protocols and interfacing with IoT devices.
• Expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and Observability (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively monitor, debug, and optimize large-scale systems.
• Experience conducting post-mortems and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical incidents
• Ability to document technical designs, contribute to technical roadmaps, and advocate for solutions to stakeholders
• Ability to travel approximately twice a year.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Distributed Systems
• Grafana
• IoT
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kotlin
• Kubernetes
• Scala
• Go

Benefits

• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge, plus a wellness resource to help you wind down.
• A work-from-home stipend.
• An employer-paid healthcare package.
• Of course, Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be!