Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Modern SaaS products increasingly rely on distributed backends that can sustain high concurrency while remaining observable and maintainable. This Senior Backend Developer role is notable for its emphasis on production ownership across Golang services, data-layer performance (SQL plus Redis), and event-driven integration via Kafka—core building blocks for subscription software that must be reliable under variable demand.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to the competencies that travel well between platforms: designing service boundaries, making pragmatic scalability choices (replication, partitioning, sharding), and treating monitoring, alerting, and post-mortems as part of delivery rather than an afterthought. The stated focus on ADR compliance, code review discipline, and internal libraries also signals experience with engineering governance—useful for senior IC paths and future tech-lead responsibilities in SaaS environments.
This position tends to suit an experienced backend engineer who prefers end-to-end accountability, including diagnosing incidents and automating operational toil. It also fits someone who enjoys balancing low-level performance tuning with system-level design decisions, and who values collaborative practices such as mentoring and shared tooling over isolated feature delivery.
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
- Design and implement complex business logic in Golang autonomously, while ensuring high performance and system reliability.
- Design optimal database structures (SQL), manage indexes, and optimize query performance. Build asynchronous service interactions using Kafka.
- Take ownership of backend services lifecycle, including delivery, monitoring and maintaining backend services in the production environment
- Write clean, structured code, conduct code reviews, ensure compliance with architectural guidelines (ADR), and implement engineering best practices.
- Set up monitoring and alerting for your services, participate in Post-Mortem processes, identify root causes of incidents, and automate routine tasks.
- Share expertise with the team, participate in onboarding new members, and contribute to the development of internal libraries and tools.
- Proactively seek improvements in technical implementations and product solutions, striving to deliver the best possible user experience.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 5+ years of commercial backend engineering. With experience solving complex problems in high-load environments
- Strong knowledge of Go programming language. Knows and has applied advanced features of the Go language in practice
- Strong SQL knowledges, including designing schemas, scaling strategies (replication, partitioning, sharding) and query optimisation for high-load environment
- In-depth knowledge of Redis, familiar with various data structures, and its efficient use in high-load systems
- Experience working with Docker, understanding CI/CD pipelines. Knows how work k8s (or analogs) and cloud infrastructure (like AWS)
- Experience with synchronous and asynchronous inter-service communication patterns, with a focus on reliability in high load environment
- Knows main microservice architecture patterns. Deep understanding of how to build efficient interactions between client and server applications, knows limitations
- Proven ability to design and implement a full observability strategy, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and tracing
- An interest in new technologies, a collaborative spirit, and a drive to continuously develop your skills
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.
