Senior Golang Backend Engineer — Consumer Products

Location: Remote, APAC

Employment Type: Full-time

What We Need

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Golang Backend Engineer with strong recent Go experience and direct ownership of consumer-facing product features.

Relevant experience may include:

• Payments, wallets, subscriptions, checkout, or refunds
• Orders, carts, bookings, delivery, or marketplaces
• Chat, feeds, notifications, recommendations, or social features
• Gaming, betting, matchmaking, rewards, or loyalty
• User onboarding, identity, accounts, or growth features

You should be able to explain the user journey, the backend feature you personally owned, and how you designed, shipped, and supported it in production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong recent production experience with Golang
• Direct ownership of consumer-facing backend features
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience with Redis and Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
• Good understanding of concurrency, idempotency, retries, rate limiting, consistency, and failure recovery
• Able to own features from technical design through production support
• Strong English communication and ability to work independently in a remote team

Responsibilities

• Build scalable Golang services for consumer products
• Design APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
• Own features from technical design through release and monitoring
• Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Troubleshoot complex production issues
• Work closely with product, frontend, mobile, and QA teams
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews
• Mentor other engineers when needed

Strong Advantages

• Experience in gaming, poker, betting, fintech, payments, e-commerce, social, travel, or delivery products
• Experience with real-time systems, WebSockets, or high-volume transaction processing
• Experience with wallets, ledgers, settlement, reconciliation, or virtual economies
• Technical leadership or cross-team project ownership
• Experience with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding tools

Benefits

• Fully remote with flexible working hours
• Competitive USD salary and quarterly bonus
• Five weeks of paid leave plus local public holidays
• Annual salary review
• Equipment and learning allowances