Senior Software Engineer – Product Foundations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Moldova.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage backend services in Go that are essential for teams and customers.

• Take ownership of features from initial design through to implementation, testing, and deployment in production.

• Troubleshoot intricate production issues related to security, financial, or trust-critical processes.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to tackle challenges that lack textbook solutions.

• Influence product direction and manage the backlog effectively.

• Engage in work involving authentication, authorization, SSO, billing, audit trails, notifications, feature flags, cloud pricing, Spot availability, and reporting systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid software engineering principles, including clean abstractions, maintainable code, and well-justified architectural decisions.

• Prior production experience with Go is highly preferred; candidates without Go experience must showcase strong systems programming capabilities in a similar language.

• Experience in building or managing trust-critical systems at scale, such as authentication/authorization, billing, or financial/accounting-related data.

• Knowledge of API design best practices, including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, idempotency, and asynchronous patterns.

• Proficient in debugging, optimization, and performance tuning, encompassing query profiling, index design, and database performance tuning beyond ORM usage.

• Experience in operating and optimizing systems under high loads.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including pods, services, deployments, and cluster deployment or debugging.

• Familiarity with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows.

• Proven track record of personally leading a complex project from start to finish.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable navigating through uncertainty.

• Willingness to be part of an on-call rotation for teams that necessitate it.

• No visa sponsorship or work permit will be provided.

• May be subject to a background check at the final stage of the recruitment process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Separate compensation for on-call participation, including both passive coverage and active interventions.

• Flexible, remote-first global working environment.

• Equity options available.

• 10% of work time allocated for personal projects or self-improvement initiatives.

• Learning budget for both professional and personal development, including attendance at international conferences and courses.

• Annual hackathon event.

• Budget for team-building activities and company events.

• Equipment budget to support your work.

• Additional days off for personal time.

• Company-covered travel expenses to Vilnius for onboarding.