Gametime
Uniting the world through shared experiences.
Senior Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
58 days ago
Salary
$164.5K - $193.5K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDynamo DBJavaKafkaMicroservicesMongo DBMy SQLNo SQLPostgresPythonRabbit MQRubyRustScalaGo
Job Description
• Design and implement high-performance Golang microservices for e-commerce checkout, account management, and fraud mitigation.
• Take ownership of components and features within backend systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build, test, monitor, and maintain critical integrations and infrastructure.
• Develop and support robust internal and external APIs with high throughput and low latency requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver technical solutions aligned with user and business goals.
• Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with teammates, and uphold engineering best practices.
• Drive projects from implementation to production deployment with a focus on quality and operational readiness.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in system performance, observability, and CI/CD workflows.
• Explore and help implement AI-powered capabilities within our systems and workflows, including agentic tools and intelligent automation.
• Support a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture through thoughtful communication and continuous improvement.
Job Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years in software engineering.
- Backend Development: Proficiency in building reliable backend systems using Golang (or Python, Ruby, Java, C++, C#, Rust, Scala, etc.).
- System Design: Experience developing distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- AI Fluency: Familiarity with using AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) or contributing to AI-powered systems is a plus.
- Working Familiarity with: OIDC Authentication (Google, Apple SSO), E-Commerce Fraud Prevention, Payment Service Provider Integrations (Stripe)
- API Development: Capable of designing and maintaining well-structured internal and external APIs.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Event-Driven Systems: Experience working with messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Databases: Solid experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB).
- Team Collaboration: Works effectively with cross-functional partners to deliver reliable solutions and shares knowledge through code reviews and discussions.
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