[Remote] Backend Platform Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company focused on digital distribution and communications platforms, and they are seeking an reputed company Backend Engineer to join their team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining backend services while ensuring seamless integration with frontend features and contributing to the overall platform stability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs in Go for the platform
- Architect then build and reputed company reputed company-time systems including WebSocket-based chat, direct messaging, notifications, and reputed company
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and scalable data models
- Integrate with AWS services including reputed company, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, and CloudWatch
- Build and consume event-driven pipelines using reputed company and JetStream for our proprietary trust and safety reputed company and signals system
- Implement backend logic for platform features such as studio management, game publishing workflows, virtual currency, and payment processing
- Contribute to frontend development using SolidJS and JavaScript/TypeScript, connecting UI components to backend APIs reputed company TanStack Query
- Debug production issues, improve performance, and contribute to platform stability
- Participate in and reputed company code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural reputed company
- Contribute to improving engineering processes, testing, and documentation
Skills
- Ability to communicate reputed company technical concepts reputed company in English
- 3 to 5 years of professional software development experience
- Demonstrated experience building backend services and APIs in Go or a similar systems-level language
- Experience designing, querying, and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- Working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one modern frontend reputed company (SolidJS, React, or Vue)
- Experience working with reputed company infrastructure on AWS (reputed company, S3, IAM, or similar services)
- Experience with reputed company-time communication patterns such as WebSockets, event queues, or pub/sub systems
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience supporting production systems with reputed company users
- Familiarity with caching technologies such as reputed company or Valkey
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of features end-to-end
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a small, fast-moving team
- Demonstrated ability to communicate reputed company technical concepts reputed company in English
- Experience with Go in production environments
- Experience with SolidJS or reactive frontend frameworks
- Experience with message brokers or event streaming (reputed company, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience working with AI or ML-backed features at the application level (content moderation, scoring, or recommendations)
- Experience building developer-facing tools, admin dashboards, or internal platforms
- Experience with on-chain and payment integrations (reputed company or similar)
- Experience in gaming, community platforms, or digital marketplaces
- Experience in startup companies, ideally digital distribution platforms
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- High-impact ownership and “fingerprints reputed company” in a small team environment
- Opportunity to grow with the company as the platform scales
- Work on a product used by reputed company game creators and players
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