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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** KETCH, INC. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Starter - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $130,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Stores, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Fault Tolerance, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Redis, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** June 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=710a102d3715faa8 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Tooling?, We are looking for a highly skilled backend engineer who is comfortable with building and running large scale systems in cloud native ways. You will be solving challenging problems while learning a great deal and having fun at the same time. What we are looking for Our ideal candidate is a technical expert that gets things done by using their smarts and whatever tools make sense for the job at hand. Someone who loves to stand on the shoulders of giants to solve new problems and thrives in a rapidly innovating space working with other smart people. This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of San Francisco, California, * Have built production systems and services in Golang (ideal) or Java/Python/Scala * Have a deep understanding of domain driven data modelingHave built production services in cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) and know where it's awesome and where it hurts * Dead serious about tooling, best practices, automation - anything to improve DevEx * Are a great communicator and collaborator * Have dealt with complexities for mobile, web and mixed environments * Really grok your CI/CD (Github Actions, etc), Database/Storage (Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch) and VCS (git/GitHub) tools * Good at instrumenting, troubleshooting, performance tuning multi-tenant large scale Kubernetes deployments * 1-3 years of experience in software engineering ## Description * Develop server-side components primarily in Golang and interact with various data stores and processing pipelines * Co-own a performing, fault-tolerant, highly secure microservice architecture and continuously evolve it * Master data security and data protection techniques and put them into practice * Work closely with stakeholders/customers to understand use cases and solutions end-to-end * Collectively be responsible for the well-being of our SaaS production system - quality, performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency * Invent and reinvent how we build, deploy and operate * Keep abreast of technologies and tools. 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