Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join DoiT as a Senior Backend Engineer and play a pivotal role in building and evolving the core backend systems that power PerfectScale’s data platform. Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to design scalable systems and contribute to impactful product decisions. This remote position, based in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden, or Spain (with contractor options in other East European countries and Portugal), offers the chance to influence data-driven insights at scale using a modern cloud-native stack. You will be responsible for implementing features, writing clean and maintainable code, improving the codebase, and providing feedback to the team. DoiT is a global technology company working with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud for business growth and innovation. The company offers a flexible work environment and various benefits.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go / Java / Rust / Python)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Golang in a production environment
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and data pipelines
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases; PostgreSQL experience is a plus
• Proven experience developing SaaS products in microservice architectures
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD, GitOps, K8s, Docker
• Strong system design skills and a passion for building resilient, high-scale services
• Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; proactive and adaptable
• Self-motivated, organized, and outcome-focused

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems
• Implementing features . From the proposal through design and implementation to maintenance. You're expected to propose things that you think can be an excellent addition to the products
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, you will also ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for your peers
• Improving the health of the codebase . We’re mindful of accumulating technical debt. We dedicate one day per week to housekeeping
• Providing feedback . The team plans and discusses the upcoming work. We provide feedback to each other, trying to find challenges and unknowns as early as possible

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Exposure to data engineering practices and tools (streaming, batch processing, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Parquet)
• Understanding of performance considerations in large-scale systems

Benefits

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