Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems license our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Headquartered in Chapel Hill since 2000, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2000, we now have 370 employees.

Role overview:

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) to join our team. This is a remote role. 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 Chapel Hill, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Duties:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

Rate: $107.00 - $117.50 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule.
• Referral program.

Chen Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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