Backend Engineer - GO

Lawrence Harvey

$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience in solutions architecture with hands-on coding skills
  • Proficiency in Go as a primary production language
  • Ability to build systems from scratch with full ownership
  • Exposure to security, data pipelines, or search products
  • Experience in high-intensity startup environments with rapidly changing priorities

Responsibilities

  • Design and build foundational systems from scratch
  • Develop critical systems in security, data pipelines, and system-level infrastructure
  • Create data connectors, agents for Windows and Unix, and rules engines
  • Architect for scalability and performance in complex backend modules
  • Collaborate in a high-ownership engineering culture to influence technical direction

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Equity opportunities based on level and performance
  • H-1B transfer support with expedited processing
Full Job Description
The role

This is a hands-on, architecture-heavy individual contributor role at the core of backend and systems infrastructure. You will design and build foundational systems from scratch, working directly under engineering leadership in a lean, high-output environment across globally distributed teams in the US and India.

What you'll work on

- Designing and building critical systems from the ground up across security, data pipelines, and system-level infrastructure

- Data connectors, agents (Windows and Unix), vector serialization, and rules engines

- Scalability and performance architecture across complex backend modules

- Working across a high-ownership engineering culture where strong engineers shape technical direction

What we're looking for

- 12-15+ years of strong software engineering experience

- A background that combines solutions architecture with deep, hands-on coding - you design it and build it

- Go as a primary production language - this is a hard requirement

- Experience building systems or modules from scratch with full ownership of decisions

- Exposure to products in security, data pipelines, or search

- Comfortable operating in high-intensity startup environments with evolving priorities

Benefits

- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

- Equity opportunities based on level and performance

- H-1B transfer support with expedited processing

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