Senior Backend Engineer – Golang
Spectraforce
San Francisco, California
a day ago
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer – Golang
Location: San Francisco, CA 94105
Duration: 6 Months
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain the backend systems that power our e-commerce marketplace. This role spans API development, data pipelines, and core product backend features.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Design clean, maintainable, and well-documented APIs used by engineering teams and third-party integrations
- Lead architectural design discussions and guide technical direction across backend systems
- Review pull requests and provide technical guidance on implementation decisions across the team
- Develop and support Airflow data pipelines using Python DAGs for real-time and batch processing
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- 3+ years writing production Go (Golang)
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems on GCP or similar cloud platform
- Demonstrated ability to design clean, maintainable REST and gRPC APIs
- Experience writing and maintaining Airflow DAGs in Python or similar pipeline tooling
- Experience building and operating batch jobs and event-driven systems using Kafka or similar message streaming platforms
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams
Nice to Have
- Experience in e-commerce or marketplace domains
- Experience with GCP-native services (e.g. BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run)
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.
Location: San Francisco, CA 94105
Duration: 6 Months
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain the backend systems that power our e-commerce marketplace. This role spans API development, data pipelines, and core product backend features.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Design clean, maintainable, and well-documented APIs used by engineering teams and third-party integrations
- Lead architectural design discussions and guide technical direction across backend systems
- Review pull requests and provide technical guidance on implementation decisions across the team
- Develop and support Airflow data pipelines using Python DAGs for real-time and batch processing
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- 3+ years writing production Go (Golang)
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems on GCP or similar cloud platform
- Demonstrated ability to design clean, maintainable REST and gRPC APIs
- Experience writing and maintaining Airflow DAGs in Python or similar pipeline tooling
- Experience building and operating batch jobs and event-driven systems using Kafka or similar message streaming platforms
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams
Nice to Have
- Experience in e-commerce or marketplace domains
- Experience with GCP-native services (e.g. BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run)
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.