Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Backend engineering roles in SaaS increasingly hinge on reliability and service boundaries, and this position reflects that reality through its focus on Golang microservices, asynchronous messaging, and production ownership. The emphasis on Kafka-style event flows and database design signals a product environment where systems need to evolve without breaking downstream services—an increasingly common pattern in modern SaaS platforms.
From a career standpoint, the day-to-day work maps closely to transferable SaaS competencies: shipping features through CI/CD, meeting quality gates, instrumenting logging and monitoring, and closing the loop on incidents once code is live. Experience designing schemas, optimizing SQL, and reasoning about data integrity also travels well across subscription products where analytics, billing, and user state often sit on relational foundations.
This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers end-to-end accountability for deliverables, including tests, documentation, and operational follow-through. It will appeal to someone who enjoys collaborating via code reviews and shared architecture decisions, while still being comfortable driving individual tasks independently. A mid-level backend developer looking to deepen distributed-systems and event-driven experience in a SaaS setting would find the scope aligned.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services using Golang, translating business requirements into efficient and structured code within the agreed scope.
- Independently drive your tasks through the full lifecycle—from development and testing (passing Quality Gates) to deployment.
- Design database schemas for new features, write optimized SQL queries, and ensure data integrity.
- Implement asynchronous communication between microservices using Kafka and standard company patterns.
- Cover your code with tests, ensure monitoring/logging is in place for your features, and quickly resolve issues in production.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure compliance with company guidelines (ADR), and provide constructive feedback to peers.
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation for implemented services and features.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience. You are a self-sufficient engineer capable of delivering tasks without constant supervision.
- Good understanding of the language syntax, standard library, and common Go patterns (concurrency, error handling).
- Experience working with relational databases (SQL), writing complex queries, and understanding basic index usage.
- Familiarity with microservice architecture, Docker, and CI/CD principles. Experience with AWS (or other cloud providers) is a plus.
- Understanding of event-driven architecture and experience using Kafka (or similar tools) for inter-service communication.
- A desire to learn best practices, accept feedback, and actively develop your engineering skills.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and work collaboratively to achieve common team goals.
Conditions & Benefits
- Stable salary, official employment
- Health insurance
- Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule
- Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions
- Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support
- Discount club membership
- Diverse internal training programs
- Partially or fully paid additional training courses
- All necessary work equipment
