Senior Backend Engineer - Go

The company

Lopez Cloud is a 17-person software shop in Aurora. The founders still answer support tickets. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Position summary

Lopez Cloud is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer - Go to work remotely from the US. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Remote within the US. The team meets in Aurora once a quarter, travel covered. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

What you'll be doing

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Qualifications

• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Compensation and benefits

$178,000 - $198,000 per year

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Annual bonus
• Flexible schedule
• Cell phone reimbursement

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

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