Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join DoiT as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to the development of PerfectScale, a Kubernetes optimization and management solution. This remote position, based in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden, or Spain (with contractor options in other European countries), involves working on core backend solutions, data pipelines, and business logic. Collaborate with product managers and engineers across teams, influencing product decisions. Responsibilities include implementing features, writing clean and maintainable code, improving codebase health, and providing feedback. The ideal candidate possesses extensive backend development experience, particularly with Golang, distributed systems, and databases. A strong understanding of DevOps practices and a proactive approach are essential.

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
• 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

• 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