Senior Backend Engineer(Go), Continuous Delivery
Remote World
- Canada
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and develop features for the CD platform that are secure, well-tested, and high-performance, with a focus on distributed systems architecture in Go.
- Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through implementation, code review, deployment, and iterative refinement.
- Contribute to architectural decisions on a greenfield codebase, partnering with the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer to assess feasibility and scope.
- Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements with impact across the team, and help define standards through active code review.
- Provide mentorship to junior and intermediate engineers, helping them grow and remove blockers to their autonomy.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners — Product Management, UX, adjacent engineering teams — to deliver against product commitments.
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist with troubleshooting and urgent engineering issues.
- Significant professional experience building backend services in Go, applying Go best practices in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, distributed systems — particularly those involving durable workflow execution, state persistence, and replay patterns.
- Experience building or contributing to release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production, including deploying and operating services across diverse environments.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools in that ecosystem.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and policy-based governance in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.
- Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to drive efficiency and deliver higher quality outcomes.
- Strong communication skills: able to clearly convey complex technical and architectural problems, achieve consensus with peers, and collaborate effectively in an async-first, globally distributed environment.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with a positive, solution-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
- Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features.
- Ruby on Rails experience.
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