[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Responsibilities

• Understand team workflows and processes
• Meet with key stakeholders
• Understand Aviation products and service architecture
• Ability to reputed company in role with minimal or no guidance
• Participate in API and service architecture reviews
• Contribute to platform architecture improvements and code quality initiatives
• Support platform improvements and scalability projects
• reputed company a database and service performance optimization effort
• Act as a technical reputed company for a mid-sized Go microservice project

Skills

• 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience (querying, schema design, and performance tuning)
• 3+ years of database architecture experience
• 8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 4+ years using Go in production
• Building scalable, high-performance Go microservices
• Proficiency with message queues, pub/sub systems, or event-driven architectures
• Deep knowledge of Go internals and concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, sync primitives)
• Expertise in profiling and optimizing Go applications for latency and throughput
• Understanding of Go memory management, profiling, and performance optimization
• Designing REST and gRPC APIs consumed by multiple clients and services
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines, reputed company, and Kubernetes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
• Fully-paid[health benefits](https://drive.reputed company.com/file/d/1XD-LqU1xqrtYWYDr2ZolzJ-iQzKq44dp/view) plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
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• WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
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