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Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Golang)

Roberts Recruiting
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2026

Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the challenge of pushing high-volume consumer and business platforms to their next level. We are looking for an individual with a strong background in designing and developing scalable web services and micro-service, who has experience designing and implementing features for large-scale systems used by millions of mobile users per day, and who has significant experience with high volume internet services. Candidate must be familiar with current scalable multi-datacenter distributed computing technologies on commodity servers and micro-services. Our current infrastructure uses the latest technologies: Linux, AWS, Cassandra, MySQL, AMQP, Redis, Ruby on Rails and Go. We use an agile development process.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement high availability services and micro-services that scale to millions and millions of requests per day.
  • Develop core platform services and back-end APIs.
  • Strong interest in developing quality infrastructure and process.
  • Create speed, improve performance and maintain stability within the development life cycle.
  • Be a team player with a winning attitude.

Requirements

  • Go, C/C , Swift or Objective-C
  • Experience developing and maintaining high volume/high performance distributed applications.
  • TCP/IP, Sockets, Messaging Systems (AMQP or others)
  • Linux, Ubuntu/Debian, VMs Apache, Nginx, Thin, RabbitMQ AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, RDS, Mysql, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, HBase, Memcache

Desired Experience:

  • Ruby/Rails, Java/C# and Enterprise systems experience.
  • JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML, etc.
  • Working closely with dev-ops, knowledge of puppet, linux containers, software deployment, monitoring, failover.
  • Caching services such as CloudFront/CDNs, Akamai, etc.

Comp & Benefits

  • Competitive comp based on experience level
  • Healthcare HMO & PPO
  • Stock options and 401k
  • Flexible Spending and Transit Reimbursement Accounts

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