Backend Developer (Go)

About Tillerhall

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote position. Most of the team is in Melbourne, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

Main duties

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Desirable

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Why work with us

Salary: $158,000 to $191,000 per annum

• Flexible hours.

Applications close when we find the right person, so get in early.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tillerhall.