GO Backend Engineer, Sardine

• Experience: 2–3+ years of commercial backend development experience
• Go Expertise: You have a deep understanding of Go, including concurrency primitives (goroutines/channels), memory management, and runtime behaviour
• Database Internals: Strong experience with various databases (SQL & NoSQL). You understand the trade-offs between different storage engines and consistency models
• Cloud Native: Hands-on experience with public clouds (AWS or GCP). You understand modern cloud architecture patterns
• Event-Driven Patterns: Experience building distributed systems using message queues and event-driven architecture
• Foundational Knowledge: Solid understanding of Networking (TCP/IP, HTTP, gRPC) and the basics of Kubernetes
• An "Engineer's Engineer": You care deeply about code quality, maintainability, and Developer Experience (DX)
• A Problem Solver: You aren't afraid of complex architectural challenges and enjoy optimizing "under the hood" logic
• A Collaborator: You can explain complex technical decisions to other engineers clearly and effectively

Desirable

• We are looking for a passionate Engineer to join our Application Platform Team. We build the core infrastructure, shared libraries, and architectural standards that power Sardine’s entire ecosystem
• Why this role is different: You won’t just ship features; you will define how code is written across the company
• If you enjoy digging deep into database internals, optimizing high-load systems, and solving complex architectural challenges, this is the place for you
• Architect & Build: Design and implement high-performance, scalable microservices using Go. You will build the foundation that other teams rely on
• Optimize Core Systems: Analyze and improve the efficiency of our infrastructure. You will identify and solve deep performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and network issues
• Standardize Best Practices: Help define architectural patterns for database usage, API design, and cloud infrastructure
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Work closely with Cloud environments (AWS/GCP) to ensure our platform is resilient, secure, and automated
• The Tech Stack
• Language: Go (Golang)
• Cloud: AWS / GCP
• Data: SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB/Bigtable/BigQuery/MongoDB), Redis
• Messaging: SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub
• Ops: Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog