Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Golang Job at Aescape (New York)

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Checkr is looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to facilitat...

Location

United States , Denver; San Francisco

Salary:

213000.00 - 295000.00 USD / Year

Checkr

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Degree in computer science or related field (Bachelor's or Master's)
15+ years experience as a software engineer
2+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
5+ years experience in a leadership role
Experience developing in Ruby, GoLang, and Python
Solid understanding of Cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
Strong collaboration, communication and project management skills
Deep understanding of micro-services design and asynchronous queueing models
Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
A strong sense of ownership

Job Responsibility

Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that are consumed by the broader engineering org
Upskill the staff engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership

What we offer

A fast-paced and collaborative environment
Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
Flexible PTO policy
Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

Fulltime

Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Developer – Up to £700pd Inside IR35 – Full Remote. One of the mo...

Location

United Kingdom

Salary:

Not provided

Orbis Consultants

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong experience in Java/Python/Golang programming
Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
Strong test driven development
Strong scalability and performance mindset

Job Responsibility

Design, develop and deploy scalable, high-performance Back End systems using Java/Python/Golang
Collaborate with the engineering team to define and implement new features and services
Roll features out to over 10,000,000 users and also close to 5,000 internal staff

Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Developer – Up to £700pd Inside IR35 – Full Remote. One of the mo...

Location

United Kingdom

Salary:

Not provided

Orbis Consultants

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong experience in Java/Python/Golang programming
Experienced with K8s/Docker
Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
Strong test driven development
Strong scalability and performance mindset

Job Responsibility

Design, develop and deploy scalable, high-performance Back End systems using Java/Python/Golang
Collaborate with the engineering team to define and implement new features and services
Roll features out to over 10,000,000 users and also close to 5,000 internal staff

Fulltime

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer (Golang | Distributed Systems) to join a high-growth...

Location

United Kingdom , London

Salary:

170000.00 GBP / Year

Orbis Consultants

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years’ backend engineering experience, ideally at Staff / Principal / Tech Lead level
Expert-level proficiency with Golang in production
Proven track record designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets)
Deep understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, and high-performance data systems
Strong DevOps mindset – CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
Exceptional communicator, able to influence architecture and direction across teams

Job Responsibility

Architect and scale high-throughput, event-driven systems built in Go
Lead the evolution of real-time APIs and data platforms handling billions of requests
Stay deeply hands-on with Golang while influencing design and long-term technical strategy
Drive improvements in observability, testing, and performance across all services
Mentor senior engineers and play a key role in shaping engineering culture

What we offer

25% bonus
excellent benefits

Fulltime

Principal Software Engineer

At Automata, we're on a mission to transform how scientists work by making autom...

Location

United Kingdom , London

Salary:

130000.00 - 170000.00 GBP / Year

Automata

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

12–18 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend and some platform focus
Strong expertise in Golang
comfortable reasoning about Python-based systems
Experience building products end-to-end, ideally including at least one built from scratch and scaled
Strong system design and distributed systems experience
Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, CI/CD, IaC, security, and modern delivery practices
Experience influencing and leading senior technical people
Prior CTO (at a startup), Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership experience is a strong plus

Job Responsibility

Own architecture and technical direction
Define, evolve, and own the end-to-end technical architecture across our core platform and new products
Act as the final technical decision-maker on architecture, core technologies, and engineering approaches
Design systems that are scalable, resilient, secure, and adaptable as the business grows
Translate product vision and customer needs into clear technical strategy and executable roadmaps
Stay hands-on: contribute to critical designs, core platform modules, prototypes, and apply your coding skills where it matters most
Lead and multiply senior engineers
Lead, mentor, and influence Staff and Senior Staff Engineers (6 direct, ~16 indirect reports)
Help staff engineers lead their squads effectively, making better technical and organisational decisions
Structure teams and responsibilities to improve pace, ownership, and clarity

What we offer

Vitality Health Insurance
Eye Care
Salary Sacrifice - EV
Salary Sacrifice - Bike & Tech
Wellbeing & Support
Wellbeing & Development Allowance
Spill & Employee Assistance Programme
Additional Leave
Pension Scheme
Group Life & Critical Illness cover

Fulltime