
Senior Backend Engineer, Golang
Bird
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $137,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, implement, and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance, scalability, or maintainability.
- Work with product, data, vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines.
- Monitor and improve system health, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures.
- Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and implement best practices to increase engineering efficiency. Reduce manual operational workload by at least 10% per year through automation.
- Collaborate with the team to propose at least two technical initiatives per year that align with the team's roadmap.
- Tackle high-impact engineering challenges, conduct post-mortems, and implement long-term fixes. Reduce repeat incidents by 10% annually through improved monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
- Champion engineering culture: Act as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Lead at least one technical discussion, hackathon, or knowledge-sharing event per quarter to strengthen team engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in STEM (or equivalent) with 5+ years of professional backend experience.
- Professional proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala).
- Proven track record building distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) for IoT or high-volume telemetry.
- Hands-on experience with communication protocols and interfacing with IoT devices.
- Expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and Observability (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively monitor, debug, and optimize large-scale systems.
- Experience conducting post-mortems and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations for critical incidents
- Ability to document technical designs, contribute to technical roadmaps, and advocate for solutions to stakeholders
- Ability to travel approximately twice a year.
Benefits
- Plenty of time off to relax and recharge, plus a wellness resource to help you wind down.
- A work-from-home stipend.
- An employer-paid healthcare package.
- Of course, Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GolangJavaKotlinScaladistributed systemsreal-time data pipelinescommunication protocolsCI/CDObservabilityincident resolution
Soft Skills
technical guidancementorshipcollaborationinnovationdocumentationstakeholder advocacyknowledge sharingproblem-solvingleadershipteam engagement