Senior Back-end (Golang) Engineer

🌎 Akvelon is a known USA company, with offices in places like Seattle, Mexico, Ukraine, Poland, and Serbia. Our company is an official vendor of Microsoft and Google. Our clients also include Amazon, Evernote, Intel, HP, Reddit, Pinterest, AT&T, T-Mobile, Starbucks, and LinkedIn. To work with Akvelon means to be connected with the best and brightest engineering teams from around the globe and working with an actual technology stack building Enterprise, CRM, LOB, Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Cross-Platform, Mobile, and other types of applications customized to client’s needs and processes.

Our project is a well-known social media platform that fosters online communities and user-generated content. The project focuses on building and enhancing a user-driven economy, enabling individuals to earn money through various platform features. As part of a dynamic and fast-paced engineering team, you will work on high-impact projects at the intersection of backend systems, monetization, and platform scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategy.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
• Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows and recommend best practices.
• Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes for backend development.

Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a Back-end engineer (Go + Python/Java/Ruby/Rust)
• Python experience is a great plus
• Knowledge of basic datastore technologies (Cassandra, Redis, Postgres)
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Familiarity with SQL
• Familiarity with unit testing and other automated testing.

Overlap time requirements: at least 4 hours of overlap with the Pacific Coast (working till 12 PM PST daily).

Working conditions and benefits:

• Paid vacation, sick leave (without sickness list)
• Official state holidays — 11 days considered public holidays
• Professional growth while attending challenging projects and the possibility to switch your role, master new technologies and skills with company support
• Flexible working schedule: 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week
• Personal Career Development Plan (CDP)
• Employee support program (Discount, Care, Health, Legal compensation)
• Paid external training, conferences, and professional certification that meets the company’s business goals
• Internal workshops & seminars
• Corporate library (Paper/E-books) and internal English classes.

Ready to take the next step? Apply now 🚀