Job Description

Job Description

· We are looking for a strong Senior Backend Engineer to help evolve our platform into a multi-tenant, event-driven architecture.

· You can come from any mature backend background (Java, .NET, Node.js, Rust, Python, etc.), but you must be willing to switch to Go, as our backend services are developed in Go. Prior Go experience is not required, but you need to be comfortable ramping up quickly and writing production-grade Go code.

· The core requirement is strong distributed-systems expertise and hands-on experience with event-streaming technologies such as Pulsar or Kafka.

Responsibilities

· Design and maintain distributed microservices (Go-based environment).

· Work with event-streaming systems such as Apache Pulsar or Kafka.

· Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes across cloud environments.

· Ensure observability: logs, metrics, tracing, reliability.

· Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and performance optimisation.

· Collaborate with Data Engineering, Platform and DevOps teams.

Requirements

Core Backend Skills

· 5+ years of backend development in any production language: Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Rust, Elixir, Ruby, etc.

· Strong experience with event-driven systems: Apache Pulsar, Kafka or similar.

· Experience designing and maintaining distributed microservices.

· Solid understanding of concurrency, scalability, and high-throughput system design.

· Willingness to adopt Go as the primary language on the project.

Cloud & Deployment

· Practical experience with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, configuration).

· Understanding of cloud CI/CD systems and delivery pipelines (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Data

· Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.

· Understanding of Data Engineering concepts, including ETL/ELT and streaming workflows.

Nice to Have

· Experience with Go (Golang).

· Experience with C/C++ (networking, concurrency, high-performance systems).

· Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.

· Experience building multi-tenant architectures.

· Python experience for data workflows.

Work location: work can be performed remotely from EUROPE.

Work format: Independent Contractor

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