Founding Backend Engineer(Go)
HybridBerlin, State of Berlin, Germany
Job Summary
Develop backend applications using Go, designing and optimizing cloud-based solutions on AWS while managing databases like PostgreSQL and Neo4J. Build whole platform components from scratch, implementing caching, messaging queues, and event-driven architectures with Docker and Kubernetes. Automate processes via Bash/Python scripting and optimize RESTful APIs for security and performance. Monitor, debug, and improve backend reliability and scalability, troubleshooting production issues end to end. Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and product teams to deliver robust applications. Leverage AI agents, LLM-based systems, and vector embeddings to drive automated enforcement and risk insights.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of GoLang experience
- Hands-on coding mentality; can build things from scratch and familiar with different architectures
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized workloads
- Experience designing RESTful and gRPC APIs and using frameworks like Gin
- Hands-on experience with messaging systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience operating PostgreSQL (RDS / Aurora), Neo4J(or similar)
- Experience with AI agents, LLM-based systems, MCP, RAG, Prompts, Embeddings, Vector, etc
- Experience with AI stack(AWS Bedrock, LangChain, pgvector or similar)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues end to end
- Experience with Coding CoPilots(Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, AWS CodeWhisperer, Codex, etc.)
- Experience supporting production SaaS platforms
- Strong understanding of SaaS integrations and app-to-app permission flows
- High ownership mentality, startup mindset, and ability to move quickly
- Experience in startup or scale-up environments
- Low ego, high commitment, and a true tech startup mentality
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Excellent English communication skills
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