
Senior Backend Engineer, Go
Surfshark
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Vilnius • Lithuania
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Salary
💰 €6,000 - €7,200 per month
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, build, and evolve high-traffic, business-critical backend services (primarily in Go);
- Lead and influence architectural decisions — from domain modeling and service boundaries to infrastructure and deployment strategies;
- Drive the evolution of our service platform together with senior and lead engineers;
- Identify performance bottlenecks and scalability challenges, and propose pragmatic, long-term solutions;
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from design to production rollout;
- Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code while raising engineering standards across the team.
Requirements
- Strong experience building production-grade backend systems;
- Solid understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and API design;
- Experience with databases, messaging systems, and service-oriented or event-driven architectures;
- Ability to reason about concurrency, performance, and reliability;
- Confidence participating in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
Benefits
- Growth and learning opportunities: time dedicated to learning, conferences, online learning platforms, and books for your professional development;
- Health and wellness: we want you to feel and be your best. That's why we offer various benefits, from online workouts and a physical coach to health insurance and regular mental health checks;
- Tools of your choice: choose the technical equipment and tools you need to do your best work;
- Community and celebrations: get ready for long-lasting traditions such as yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, various team buildings and company celebrations;
- Work-life balance: We encourage working in the office, with the possibility of up to two remote days per week. Plus, with our WFA policy, you can work from almost anywhere in the world;
- More days off: additional vacation days depending on your tenure;
- Premium Surfshark accounts: for you, your family, and friends;
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Gobackend systemssoftware design principlesdistributed systemsAPI designdatabasesmessaging systemsservice-oriented architectureevent-driven architectureconcurrency
Soft Skills
leadershipinfluenceproblem-solvingcommunicationdecision-making