Senior Software Engineer I

GOAT Group is a leading platform for authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to build and operate Go microservices that enhance the seller experience. The role involves owning features end-to-end, debugging production issues, and contributing to technical design decisions across various teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate Go microservices that power seller listings, pricing, payments, and fulfillment across a distributed, event-driven architecture
• Own features end-to-end: from technical design to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Debug and resolve production issues across asynchronous, multi-service workflows using distributed tracing and observability tooling
• Work across team boundaries: our projects regularly span catalog, consumer, pricing, and fulfillment pods. You must have clear communication and coordination abilities
• Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and architecture documentation that shapes how the seller platform evolves

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Go and/or Ruby on Rails
• Experience building and operating event-driven systems (SQS, Kafka, or similar). You understand retry strategies, dead-letter queues, and eventual consistency tradeoffs
• Proficiency with gRPC / Protocol Buffers for service-to-service communication
• Hands-on experience with DynamoDB or similar NoSQL databases (single-table design, GSI patterns, batch operations)
• Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL)
• Fluency with observability platforms (Honeycomb, Datadog, or similar) for debugging distributed, asynchronous services in production
• E-commerce or marketplace platform experience
• Bias towards action: you pick up ambiguous problems and drive them forward without waiting for direction
• Curiosity: learning new tech is invigorating. You stay up to date with the latest because it's fascinating. You may casually read source code from open source or other groups in your company
• Pricing, fintech, or trading systems experience — backtesting, algorithmic pricing, price constraints
• Search infrastructure experience (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Algolia)
• Experience consuming ML model outputs in production services
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)