Senior Golang Backend Engineer - Consumer Products
A5 LABS, INC.
United States
11 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Shift work
Job source
Tech stack
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Code Review
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Distributed Systems
PostgreSQL
MySQL
RabbitMQ
Redis
WebSocket
Transaction Processing (Computing)
Real Time Systems
GitHub Copilot
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Concurrency
Backend
Rate Limiting
Apache Kafka
Front End Software Development
Golang
Microservices
Job description
Relevant experience may include:
- Payments, wallets, subscriptions, checkout, or refunds
- Orders, carts, bookings, delivery, or marketplaces
- Chat, feeds, notifications, recommendations, or social features
- Gaming, betting, matchmaking, rewards, or loyalty
- User onboarding, identity, accounts, or growth features
You should be able to explain the user journey, the backend feature you personally owned, and how you designed, shipped, and supported it in production., * Build scalable Golang services for consumer products
- Design APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
- Own features from technical design through release and monitoring
- Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Troubleshoot complex production issues
- Work closely with product, frontend, mobile, and QA teams
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
- Mentor other engineers when needed
Requirements
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Golang Backend Engineer with strong recent Go experience and direct ownership of consumer-facing product features., * 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong recent production experience with Golang
- Direct ownership of consumer-facing backend features
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
- Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with Redis and Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
- Good understanding of concurrency, idempotency, retries, rate limiting, consistency, and failure recovery
- Able to own features from technical design through production support
- Strong English communication and ability to work independently in a remote team, * Experience in gaming, poker, betting, fintech, payments, e-commerce, social, travel, or delivery products
- Experience with real-time systems, WebSockets, or high-volume transaction processing
- Experience with wallets, ledgers, settlement, reconciliation, or virtual economies
- Technical leadership or cross-team project ownership
- Experience with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding tools
Benefits & conditions
- Fully remote with flexible working hours
- Competitive USD salary and quarterly bonus
- Five weeks of paid leave plus local public holidays
- Annual salary review
- Equipment and learning allowances
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