# Software Development Engineer II - Backend

**Company:** [GoHighLevel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gohighlevel)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Go, Connectrpc, Buf, Postgres, Alloydb, ClickHouse, GCP, GKE, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Valkey, OpenTelemetry, Event Sourcing, Cqrs
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Build scalable, multi-tenant commerce and payments services covering subscriptions, payment orchestration, invoicing, tax, and ledgers. Requires at least 2 years of software development experience plus strong distributed-systems, Kubernetes, GCP, event-driven architecture, and testing expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and ship multi-tenant services for checkout, subscriptions, payment orchestration, invoicing, and tax hooks.
- Integrate payment service providers and local payment methods, including UPI, wallets, BNPL, and cards/3DS, with resilient webhooks and idempotent APIs.
- Implement an append-only, double-entry ledger; use event sourcing and CQRS where they improve scale and correctness.
- Write production-grade code with deep test coverage and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
- Operate services on GKE with CI/CD, autoscaling, SLIs/SLOs, and on-call ownership.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers, and mentor junior engineers.

## Requirements
- 2+ years of software development experience.
- Experience with Postgres, Valkey, and event-driven systems such as Kafka or Pub/Sub.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including idempotency, retries, ordering, concurrency, and consistency.
- Strong multi-tenant systems fundamentals, including tenant isolation, per-tenant data and quota boundaries, and noisy-neighbor containment.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform; familiarity with secrets management, KMS, and PCI basics.
- Deep testing discipline across unit, integration, contract, and performance testing.
- Experience with schema design for scale and backward compatibility.
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.

## Technical Stack
- **Backend:** Go, ConnectRPC, Buf
- **Databases:** Postgres, AlloyDB, ClickHouse
- **Cloud and infrastructure:** Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Pub/Sub, Valkey, OpenTelemetry

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