Senior Backend Engineer

Greetings from PTW!

We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our team to help design and build a

scalable architecture that will run our new mobile social entertainment platform. The ideal

candidate will have a strong background in microservice architecture, server-side logic, database

management, cloud services, and be passionate about building systems that are secure, efficient,

and capable of handling high volumes of concurrent users.

Role & responsibilities:

• Help design and implement a scalable microservice architecture for our UGC social entertainment platform.
• Write clean, well documented code in Go for backend services. Develop and maintain APIs to support platform functionality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to establish a clear path to deliverable milestones.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Implement data protection and security measures.
• Manage hosting environments, including database administration and scaling applications to handle load changes.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer.
• Proven experience as a Server Engineer or equivalent role.
• Previous experience building scalable microservice architecture for an application with a large number of concurrent users.
• Strong understanding of server-side languages such as Go, Java, Node.js.
• Deep familiarity with the HTTP protocol and API technologies such as gRPC, REST and OpenAPI.
• Experience with database and caching technologies (i.e. Mongo, Firestore, MySQL, Redis)
• Experience with cloud services such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Familiar with containerization and deployment technologies such as kubernetes
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

If you're interested, please drop your resume to yazhini.shanmugam@ptw.com