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Software Developer – Backend
Location
United States
Posted
66 days ago
Salary
$136.3K - $273.9K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Developer – Backend
TextNow
• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance, scalable backend services using Go microservices and modern cloud-native tooling. • Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability, observability, and developer velocity. • Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: API design, data modeling, deployment (CI/CD), live-traffic monitoring, integration and load testing, telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration. • Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, migrate legacy code, build shared frameworks and reusable service components; evaluate new backend technologies and lead their adoption. • Apply AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability. • Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve service performance and resilience. • Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault-tolerance strategies for production-grade distributed systems. • Partner closely with product, mobile, and data teams to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across all platforms. • Drive technical discussions, mentor developers, and influence strategic direction across backend and infrastructure domains.
Job Requirements
- A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives.
- Deep expertise in Go, with additional experience in PHP for legacy systems is a bonus
- Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable, and high-performance microservices.
- Strong background in system design, observability, and performance optimization.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Protobuf, CI/CD pipelines, and auto-scaling architectures.
- Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or system intelligence.
- A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and mentors others to excel.
- Passionate about building resilient, intelligent, and highly scalable backend systems that serve millions of users.
- You architect for observability, reliability, and production-readiness: you understand instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault-tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for backend systems.
- You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you’ve influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored/led developers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior developer/product leadership.
Benefits
- Free phone service
- Strong work life blend
- Flexible work arrangements (work-from-home, remote, or access to one of our office spaces)
- Employee stock options
- Unlimited vacation
- 12 paid holidays per year
- Competitive pay
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Short-term & long-term disability
- $750 annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account
- 401(K) matching
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Learning & Development opportunities
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