Senior Backend Engineer

What You’ll Own

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices.
• Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features.
• Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategy.
• Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production.
• Help plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientation.
• Mentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues.
• Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services.

What You’ll Need to Accomplish the Job

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn).
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.

What Will Make Us Love You

• You’ve deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• You’re comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliability.
• You’ve worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices.
• You’re thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind.
• You value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.