Senior Backend Engineer (Golang/Platform)

Bird

4h • $137,000 - $185,000

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing high-quality software solutions. This position exists to provide technical expertise and ownership of complex features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. The engineer is expected to tackle challenging technical problems, write clean and efficient code, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. By mentoring junior engineers and adhering to best practices, this role contributes to the team's success and the overall delivery of Bird's product roadmap.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Kotlin, Avro, and Java
• Extensive experience with Flink, Kafka, and real-time streaming systems
• Expertise in Hadoop Frameworks
• Extensive experience in Geospatial and IOT systems

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.
• Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level