Senior Backend Developer (Go)

About the role

Jobtome is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to take ownership of critical backend systems and services. You will design, build, and evolve backend services that power complex recruitment workflows while contributing to architectural decisions and system reliability. This is a hands-on role requiring daily production coding in Go and a focus on long-term code quality and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services written in Go
• Build and evolve APIs using GraphQL and REST
• Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend architectures
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend, product, and data engineers
• Contribute to data modeling, business logic, and performance optimization
• Review code and participate in architectural and technical discussions
• Improve code quality, testing, observability, and system resilience
• Manage backend features end to end from design to production

Required skills

• Go
• API design
• GraphQL
• REST
• PostgreSQL
• Distributed systems
• Docker
• CI/CD
• GCP
• Observability
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Kubernetes

Nice to have

• Python
• Protobuf
• gRPC

About the Company

Jobtome is an HR Tech company building modern web applications that companies use to run complex hiring and recruitment workflows at scale. They operate with a strong product mindset, short feedback loops, and a pragmatic engineering culture.