Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join DoiT's PerfectScale team as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to the core backend solutions powering our data pipeline and business logic. This remote role, based in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden, or Spain (with contractor options in other East European countries and Portugal), involves collaborating with product managers and developers. You will implement features, write clean and maintainable code, improve the codebase, and provide feedback. The ideal candidate possesses extensive backend development experience, particularly with Golang, distributed systems, and databases. DoiT offers a comprehensive benefits package including unlimited PTO, flexible working options, health insurance, parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python)
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience
• 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems and data pipelines
• Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance / schema / query optimization. ClickHouse and Postgress are a big advantage
• Experience developing enterprise-grade SaaS products, microservices and containers
• Experienced working with microservices and containers (Docker)
• Experience and passion for distributed systems design and infrastructure
• Familiarity with modern Devops frameworks and best practices - Docker, K8s, GitOps, CI/CD
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proactive, can do approach
• Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment
• Self-organized, Goal-oriented, self-motivated individual who is confident, thorough and tenacious

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems
• Implement features from proposal through design and implementation to maintenance. Propose additions to products
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for your peers
• Improve the health of the codebase. Dedicate one day per week to housekeeping
• Provide feedback. Plan and discuss upcoming work. Provide feedback to each other, trying to find challenges and unknowns as early as possible

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on, production experience with K8S
• Hands-on, production experience with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with data engineering - streaming and batch processing, spark, tryno, iceberg, clickhouse, parquet

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend
• Peer Recognition Program