# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Socure](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/socure)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Microservices, REST APIs, Concurrency, Multi-Threading, NoSQL, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-01-19

> Senior Backend Engineer designs, develops, and deploys scalable distributed systems and microservices using Golang to combat identity fraud. Requires 5-7 years experience, strong problem-solving, and expertise in concurrency and RESTful APIs.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and debug components for distributed systems that operate at large scale and high speed
- Own and drive nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security
- Develop and maintain unit and integration tests, achieving robust code and functional coverage
- Produce enterprise-class documentation for internal and external collaboration
- Break down complex tasks into manageable components, plan, and execute effectively
- Collaborate with team members to elevate technology standards and consistently apply best practices
- Participate actively in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software solutions

## Job Requirements
- 5-7 years of significant hands-on coding experience with **Golang**, preferably in a product development environment
- Strong programming and design fundamentals, with excellent problem-solving and coding skills
- Exceptional analytical and reasoning abilities, with a talent for visualizing processes and outcomes
- Passion for continuous learning and growth while building high-performance systems, with a solid understanding of **concurrency** and **multi-threading**
- Experience architecting **microservices** and developing **RESTful APIs**

## Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience with high-throughput, low-latency storage, **cloud computing**, **NoSQL databases**, **big data analytics**, **machine learning services**, or large-scale systems

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