About the companyAt Jobtome -
https://weare.jobtome.com/ - we are a HR Tech company building modern web applications used by companies to manage complex hiring and recruitment workflows at scale.Our products are highly interactive, data-driven, and designed for real-world usage, not demos.We work with a strong product mindset, short feedback loops, and a pragmatic engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and long-term maintainability.The roleWe are looking for a Senior Golang Backend Developer to join our engineering team and take ownership of critical backend systems and services.You will work on the design, development, and evolution of backend services that power our products, contributing to architectural decisions, improving system reliability, and shaping how backend engineering is done across the company.This is a hands-on senior role: you will write production code every day and be deeply involved in technical and architectural decisions that have real impact.What you will doDesign, develop, and maintain backend services written in GoBuild and evolve APIs (GraphQL and/or REST) that support complex product workflowsWork on and design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend architecturesCollaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, data engineers and designersContribute to data modeling, business logic, and performance optimizationPerform code reviews and participate in architectural and technical discussionsImprove code quality, testing strategy, observability, and system resilienceActively work on refactoring, technical debt, and long-term improvementsTake ownership of backend features from design to productionActively participate in Agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives)Tech stackYou will work with (and are expected to be comfortable with):Go (Golang)API design (GraphQL and/or REST)PostgreSQL (or similar relational databases)BigQuery and other NoSQL databasesDistributed systems and service-oriented architecturesDocker and CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab pipelines preferred)Cloud infrastructure mindset (GCP or other providers)Observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing)Testing (unit and/or integration)KubernetesNice to have points:Working experience with PythonExposure to Protobuf and GrpcWhat We’re Looking ForWe consider "senior" someone who can:Work independently without needing perfect specificationsTake ownership of complex features and systemsMake informed architectural decisions and explain trade-offsWrite clean, maintainable, and well-structured codeProactively identify problems and propose solutionsCommunicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholdersRaise the overall quality bar of the team through example and reviewsWorking modelFull remote, EU onlyCore hours with flexibility outside of themDaily working language: English