# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Weave](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/weave)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, REST APIs, gRPC, Kafka, Redis, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Design, build, and maintain scalable Golang backend services and APIs for a healthcare platform. Drive architecture, observability, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotations.

## Job Description

## 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.

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