Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the core infrastructure behind a high-stakes financial platform. This role sits at the heart of transaction processing, ledger correctness, and system reliability — where mistakes are costly and precision matters.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for engineers who care deeply about correctness, reliability, and long-term system design. You’ll work closely with mobile, infrastructure, and product teams to ship backend systems that power real financial workflows used daily.
What You’ll Do
- Build and scale production-grade backend services using Go
- Design and own financial ledger, accounting, and transaction systems
- Develop REST APIs powering mobile and platform features
- Implement real-time event and webhook processors with strict reliability guarantees
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas for correctness and performance
- Integrate external financial services and infrastructure providers
- Own production reliability — observability, alerting, and incident response
- Make architectural decisions balancing performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Ship production-ready systems and continuously improve backend stability
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems
- 3+ years of production experience using Go
- Strong experience designing and building REST APIs
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases
- Experience building financial systems, payment platforms, or high-precision data systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and data consistency
- Experience operating production systems under load
- A track record of shipping and maintaining real-world backend infrastructure
- Experience implementing double-entry bookkeeping or ledger systems
- Background in fintech, payments, or regulated environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture, CQRS, or event sourcing
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Familiarity with blockchain systems such as Solana or EVM-based chains
- Work on mission-critical backend infrastructure
- High ownership over core financial systems
- Small team with meaningful technical influence
- Strong engineering culture focused on correctness and reliability
- Opportunity to build systems that users depend on daily