Backend Engineer

Voltage Park is building a cloud infrastructure business from the ground up. As part of this effort, we’re hiring a Backend Engineer with an expertise in shipping monitored and resilient Golang backends from 0 to 1. You must know the key tools and frameworks for designing, testing, and serving key application logic to power our customer facing applications and internal tools. This is a fully remote role, but you must be located in the continental US and available to work PST hours. We are not able to provide sponsorship for this position.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the entire backend system for product and internal tools

• Design and implement database schemas

• Write business logic and full integration tests

• Manage pipeline from development and staging to production

• Provide internal client library releases and API playgrounds

• Deploy tools for logging, monitoring, and error handling

• Collaborate with front-end and ops teams for integration

• Build reusable code and libraries to accelerate development and support teammates

Qualifications

• Golang

• Modern web frameworks like Gin or Echo

• ORMs and SQL DBs like PostgreSQL

• GraphQL or OpenAPI

• AWS, GCP, Heroku, or similar

• Tools like Sentry for monitoring, logging, and error handling

• Various Linux distributions

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Python

• Deploying Machine Learning models in production

Culture

• You enjoy working with a small group of friendly, highly motivated, execution focused colleagues

• You’re comfortable with a high degree of autonomy. We expect you to independently prioritize your work and understand how it maps to the overall needs and goals of the company

• You’re knowledgeable in your domain but also enjoy wearing multiple hats and venturing outside of your comfort zone when the need arises

• You value the ability to write well and understand the importance of good documentation

Voltage Park is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify your recruiter. 

Compensation Range: $130K - $180K

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