Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Role overview:

Birchwright has an opening for a Senior Backend Engineer (Go). The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This role is fully remote within India. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

What you'll do:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

What we offer:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Start: Flexible.

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