Senior Backend Engineer

The role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be taking ownership of one or more domains of our product and will work closely with other Backend and Frontend engineers using cutting-edge open source frameworks to develop highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems.

The main technologies you will be working with are Go, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Infrastructure. \ \ Our team meetings are scheduled between 11:00 and 16:00 UTC. Your availability and commitment to participate in these sessions are essential for effective collaboration and team alignment.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• developing, scaling and maintaining some of our backend services including the API, reports and other infrastructure services that manage our product and logistics worldwide
• working with multiple teams day to day to bring more value to Toggl’s users, covering customer-facing web and native applications and public APIs
• designing, breaking down, and completing projects of a medium to large scope with high-level productivity
• looking for technical problems of existing system/product without guidance and offering solutions
• leading projects with a small group of people, such as hosting weekly meetings, communicating with other partners and stakeholders

Does this sound like you?

We would love to hear from you if you strive to solve technical problems of high scope and complexity and have long-standing experience programming in Go.

In particular, we are looking for:

• Strong backend engineering experience in Go
• Significant professional experience with distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Experience with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Ability to work cross-teams and improve cross-functional relationships which will facilitate ongoing projects
• Effective communication skills, ensuring regular consensus with peers and clear status updates.
• Strong collaboration skills across the company to define, design, build, and improve the product.
• Experience with data warehouse, analytics systems, Kubernetes at scale, and system architecture at scale.
• Eagerness to contribute to the engineering team's growth, including interviewing and mentoring junior engineers, and providing precise, actionable feedback to peers.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is required for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment