Key skills
Go programmingREST APIsWebSocketPostgreSQLAWS ECSAWS S3AWS CloudFrontAWS CognitoAWS CloudWatchNATSJetStreamSolidJSJavaScriptTypeScriptTanStack QueryRedisValkeyGoAIMLKafkaReactVueWebSocketsAWSTerraformECSS3CloudFrontIAMCloudWatchPub/SubCognitoRESTfulRabbitMQEvent StreamingCachingCommunication
About this role
Haiven is a company focused on digital distribution and communications platforms, and they are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to join their team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services while ensuring seamless integration with frontend features and contributing to the overall platform stability.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs in Go for the platform
- Architect then build and extend real-time systems including WebSocket-based chat, direct messaging, notifications, and presence
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and scalable data models
- Integrate with AWS services including ECS, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, and CloudWatch
- Build and consume event-driven pipelines using NATS and JetStream for our proprietary trust and safety engine and signals system
- Implement backend logic for platform features such as studio management, game publishing workflows, virtual currency, and payment processing
- Contribute to frontend development using SolidJS and JavaScript/TypeScript, connecting UI components to backend APIs via TanStack Query
- Debug production issues, improve performance, and contribute to platform stability
- Participate in and lead code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural decisions
- Contribute to improving engineering processes, testing, and documentation
Requirements:
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly in English
- 3 to 5 years of professional software development experience
- Demonstrated experience building backend services and APIs in Go or a similar systems-level language
- Experience designing, querying, and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- Working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one modern frontend framework (SolidJS, React, or Vue)
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure on AWS (ECS, S3, IAM, or similar services)
- Experience with real-time communication patterns such as WebSockets, event queues, or pub/sub systems
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience supporting production systems with real users
- Familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis or Valkey
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of features end-to-end
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a small, fast-moving team
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly in English
- Experience with Go in production environments
- Experience with SolidJS or reactive frontend frameworks
- Experience with message brokers or event streaming (NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience working with AI or ML-backed features at the application level (content moderation, scoring, or recommendations)
- Experience building developer-facing tools, admin dashboards, or internal platforms
- Experience with on-chain and payment integrations (Stripe or similar)
- Experience in gaming, community platforms, or digital marketplaces
- Experience in startup companies, ideally digital distribution platforms