# Software Developer — Backend - US
**Company:** [TextNow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/textnow)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $136K-$274K
**Skills:** Go, PHP, AWS, Kubernetes, Argo Cd, Protobuf, CI/CD, Microservices, System Design, Observability
**Posted:** 2025-02-07
> Builds and leads scalable Go-based backend microservices, owns full system lifecycle including architecture, CI/CD, observability, and AI-driven automation. Collaborates across teams to enhance performance for millions of users, requiring deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and technical leadership.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and sustain high-performance, scalable backend services using Go microservices and modern cloud-native tooling.
- Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability, observability, and developer velocity.
- Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: API design, data modeling, deployment (CI/CD), live-traffic monitoring, integration and load testing, telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration.
- Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, migrate legacy code, build shared frameworks and reusable service components; evaluate new backend technologies and lead their adoption.
- Apply AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability.
- Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve service performance and resilience.
- Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault-tolerance strategies for production-grade distributed systems.
- Partner closely with product, mobile, and data teams to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across all platforms.
- Drive technical discussions, mentor developers, and influence strategic direction across backend and infrastructure domains.

## Who You Are
- A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives.
- Deep expertise in **Go**, with additional experience in **PHP** for legacy systems is a bonus.
- Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable, and high-performance microservices.
- Strong background in system design, observability, and performance optimization.
- Experience with **AWS**, **Kubernetes**, **Argo CD**, **Protobuf**, CI/CD pipelines, and auto-scaling architectures.
- Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or system intelligence.
- A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and mentors others to excel.
- Passionate about building resilient, intelligent, and highly scalable backend systems that serve millions of users.
- You architect for observability, reliability, and production-readiness: you understand instrumentation, **SLOs/SLIs**, fault-tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for backend systems.
- You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you’ve influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored/led developers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior developer/product leadership.
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