Senior Backend Engineer

The Company

TekRek has partnered with a high-growth technology company building modern, cloud-native systems that support complex internal and customer-facing workflows. The engineering team focuses on reliability, scalability, and thoughtful system design, while selectively integrating AI-enabled capabilities to improve automation and developer productivity.

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

• Own and evolve production backend services, primarily written in Golang, supporting distributed, high-throughput workloads.
• Design, build, and operate cloud-native systems deployed on Kubernetes, with a strong focus on reliability and performance.
• Contribute to distributed systems design, including async workflows, messaging, and service integrations.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience owning production systems end-to-end.
• Strong experience building services in Golang (or equivalent backend languages with recent Go exposure).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including messaging/streaming, retries, and failure handling.

Why This Role?

• Ownership of core backend systems with real scale and long-term impact.
• Work in an environment that values strong backend fundamentals while pragmatically adopting AI.
• Senior IC role with influence over system design, reliability, and technical direction.