Senior Backend Engineer II - Golang
About The Position
This engineer will play a critical role in scaling and hardening Grocery TV’s backend systems as the platform continues to grow. This engineer will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability. Operating at a Senior II level, this role is expected to lead and execute backend initiatives end-to-end, bring strong system design judgment, and translate business and product needs into durable technical solutions. This position partners closely with Product and other Software Engineers to ensure backend systems support both current execution and long-term platform strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services
- Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs
- Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs
- Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies
- Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go
- Lead implementation of backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance
- Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications
- Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives
- Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals
- Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems
- Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
- Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups
- Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process
- Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
