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# Go Backend Engineer Utrecht

- **Company:** CodeGuild
- **Location:** AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €7,083.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Backend
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.codeguild.nl/en/software-developer-jobs-netherlands/senior-go-backend-engineer-utrecht-1050245-2#apply

## About the Role

* At least 2+ years of commercial Go experience
 * 7+years o backend development experience
 * Experience working on systems serving large user bases
 * Strong backend fundamentals and distributed systems understanding
 * PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, performance)
 * Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs
 * Cloud experience (GCP is a strong plus; AWS/Azure welcome)
 * Strong sense of ownership, pragmatic mindset, senior IC level
 * Fluency in English, comfortable with nuance and async collaboration
 * Eligible only if you hold nationality from a NATO member country
 * Experience working at a startup or scaleup is a big plus

## Description

When you join as Senior Go Backend Engineer Utrecht, you will help build the new backend platform that customers use to configure and operate large-scale systems. This platform is central to the company's long-term roadmap.

Your work includes:
Designing and implementing APIs
Creating and evolving domain logic
Managing PostgreSQL schemas and migrations
Improving performance, reliability and operability
Integrating backend logic with distributed components under the surface

You work in a small senior team where engineering decisions are made based on real usage, team size and long-term maintainability, not trends. The system evolves incrementally, and you grow with it as complexity increases.


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