Software Engineer III – GO
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $145,000 - $155,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Contribute to architecture: Participate in team-level architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs and proposing solutions grounded in deep understanding of the system.
- Own feature development: Take ownership of features end-to-end — from technical design through delivery — breaking complex projects into well-scoped, deliverable pieces.
- Write high-quality code: Produce Go code that is idiomatic, performant, well-tested, and raises the bar for the code-base.
- Improve quality proactively: Identify opportunities to improve code quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience — and act on them.
- Guide junior engineers: Provide technical guidance to Software Engineers I and II through thorough code reviews, pairing sessions, and design feedback.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Product, Design, and QA to validate technical decisions and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation.
- Participate in on-call rotation: Take increasing ownership of incident response, contributing to root cause analysis and systemic improvements.
- Build team knowledge: Document technical decisions, system architecture, and patterns to strengthen your team’s shared understanding.
- Performance Ownership: Own high throughput endpoints, their database queries and their caching strategies.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time building Go services
- History of delivering complex features within a software team to drive business outcomes
- Experience breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans
- Advanced proficiency in Go — you write clean, idiomatic, production-quality code and understand Go’s concurrency model well
- Strong SQL skills — schema design, query optimization, and understanding of performance characteristics at scale
- Experience designing and building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs
- Solid testing practices — unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Autonomous — you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a well-defined solution
- Comfortable providing and receiving direct technical feedback
- Strong written communicator, especially important in a fully remote environment
- Able to balance deep technical work with collaborative design and planning
Benefits
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus
- Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
- Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
- Company-wide in-person events and team outings
- Lifestyle enhancement program
- Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
- Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GoSQLRESTful APIsgRPCunit testingintegration testingend-to-end testingcontainerizationDockerKubernetes
Soft Skills
technical guidancecollaborationautonomydirect feedbackwritten communication