Full-Time Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer - PerfectScale by DoiTLocation

Our Senior Backend Engineer will be an integral part of our EMEA engineering teams.

This role is based remotely as a full-time employee in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden and Spain. We are also open to contractors in East Europe and Portugal.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well-thought-out solutions for complex problems
• Implementing features, from proposal through design and implementation to maintenance
• Propose excellent additions to the products
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices
• Ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for peers
• Improving the health of the codebase
• Providing feedback

Qualifications

• 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

Bonus Points

• 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

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