Go Senior Backend Engineer

Livestorm

2d•Remote

About The Position

Livestorm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help shape the future of their video engagement platform. This role involves designing and building scalable, cost-efficient backend systems as Livestorm transitions to a service-based architecture. The engineer will play a key part in defining architecture, establishing best practices, and collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams. The position offers high agency and impact, with opportunities to influence technical direction and mentor other engineers. The engineering culture is collaborative, transparent, and product-minded.

Requirements

Deep backend engineering expertise with a track record of designing systems at scale.
Go is our primary language, whether it's already yours or you're a strong backend engineer ready to make it your home, you have the depth to ramp up fast
Strong API design skills: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, you have opinions on when to use what and how to make APIs that developers love
Masters AI tooling and drives its adoption across the team to raise both engineering velocity and quality
Experience designing event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or platform/infrastructure layers consumed by other engineering teams
Solid knowledge of data validation, SQL/NoSQL databases, and messaging systems like Kafka
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
A product mindset with high agency: you engage with user feedback, ask "why", and make sure technical outcomes solve real problems without waiting to be asked
Solid experience with performance engineering, scalability, and reliability at the backend level
Good communication skills, able to talk through technical trade-offs with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience in a remote-first, distributed engineering environment
Prior experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or composable API layers used by other teams
Experience with large-scale migration patterns (strangler fig, parallel-run) moving from a monolith to a new architecture without breaking the world
Multi-tenancy and SaaS platform patterns: tenant isolation, rate limiting, platform-level security
Familiarity with real-time systems (WebRTC, media pipelines, event streaming)
Open-source sensibility: experience building for external developers with attention to DX, documentation, and API versioning discipline
Familiarity with monitoring, SLOs, and backend observability practices
Authentication and authorization knowledge
Advanced Kubernetes knowledge or infrastructure experience

Responsibilities

Design and build backend services in Go, APIs, SDKs, and event-driven systems that shape how Livestorm evolves
Own architectural decisions: define service boundaries, data models, API contracts, and patterns the whole organisation builds on
Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to understand requirements, explore solution options, and ensure technical implementations align with user needs and product vision
Drive API and SDK ergonomics: ensure the platform is a pleasure for other engineers to build on
Lead cross-team technical initiatives and align engineering and product stakeholders around shared goals
Contribute to build-vs-buy decisions on infrastructure, choosing pragmatically over dogmatically
Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and direct feedback
Champion good practices in testing, observability, CI/CD and backend reliability
Document technical designs, processes, and system architecture
Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making for Livestorm's technical direction
Navigate ambiguity with confidence: define the "how" when requirements are still forming, make pragmatic bets, and iterate