Senior Backend Engineer
Socure
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Architect, develop, test, and debug scalable backend services within distributed systems.
- Own and deliver key non-functional requirements, including scalability, availability, performance, and security.
- Author and maintain comprehensive tests (unit, integration, functional) to ensure exceptional coverage and reliability.
- Produce and contribute to technical documentation for internal knowledge sharing and external collaboration.
- Decompose complex projects into clear, actionable tasks and drive them through to completion.
- Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and sharing of best practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver impactful features.
- Continuously enhance engineering processes, tools, and practices within an agile environment.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial expertise coding in Golang (ideally in product-based companies).
- Strong programming fundamentals, problem-solving ability, and system design skills.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and distributed computing concepts.
- Experience building microservices architectures and developing RESTful APIs.
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills, particularly in visualizing and simplifying complex systems.
- Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), NoSQL databases, big data analytics, or machine learning services is a plus.
- Growth mindset with a genuine desire to learn, grow, and contribute to building best-in-class backend systems.
Benefits
- Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Golangprogramming fundamentalsproblem-solvingsystem designconcurrencymulti-threadingdistributed computingmicroservices architectureRESTful APIshigh-throughput systems
Soft Skills
analytical skillsreasoning skillsvisualizationsimplifying complex systemsgrowth mindsetmentoringcollaborationtechnical guidancebest practicestask decomposition