Senior Backend Engineer, Golang

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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EXIT83 AI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

EXIT83 AI is a company that develops innovative technical solutions for businesses, focusing on accelerating innovation and driving value. With expertise in AI platforms, data architecture, DevOps, and full-stack development, EXIT83 leverages Azure and AWS to provide cutting-edge engineering services. The company operates through a managed project or staffing model, with a team spread across the US and Latin America. EXIT83's experienced leadership team has over three decades of experience, providing strategic engineering and staffing solutions globally. They have a proven track record of developing scalable SaaS platforms for Fortune 50 companies and startups. Located in Seattle, EXIT83 aims to build authentic relationships through trust and effective execution of business strategies, supported by a robust recruiting team that finds and trains top talent.

📋 Description

• Build the backend foundation for a new real-time transportation product • Design and build production-quality backend services in Go • Develop REST APIs for vehicle, route, location, and operational data • Build secure webhook endpoints to ingest data from external transportation systems • Validate, normalize, and persist incoming events with authentication, authorization, and input validation • Ensure webhook processing is idempotent and resilient to duplicate, delayed, or out-of-order events • Handle retries, failures, rate limits, and malformed third-party payloads • Enable real-time or near-real-time vehicle updates • Design PostgreSQL schemas for vehicles, locations, routes, events, and related operational data • Build efficient queries for current and historical vehicle locations • Model geospatial data using PostgreSQL and PostGIS where appropriate • Evaluate queues or asynchronous processing needs • Deploy and operate the backend in AWS using appropriate services • Configure logging, metrics, health checks, and basic alerting • Establish secure credential and application-secret management • Create repeatable deployments using existing CI/CD and infrastructure tooling • Investigate and resolve integration or production issues • Partner with the product manager to clarify requirements and prioritize scope • Identify technical risks, unknowns, and external integration dependencies • Deliver incrementally for product and engineering feedback • Collaborate with frontend engineers on API contracts and real-time update behavior • Write automated unit and integration tests • Document architecture, APIs, webhook behavior, deployment and operational procedures, limitations, and next steps • Provide local development and testing instructions • Conduct a technical handoff with the internal engineering team

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience building production backend services in Go • Experience designing and delivering REST APIs and third-party webhook integrations • Strong PostgreSQL and relational data-modelling skills • Experience deploying and operating applications in AWS • Understanding of concurrent, asynchronous, and event-driven processing • Experience implementing idempotency, retries, and failure handling • Strong automated testing and debugging skills • Familiarity with CI/CD and modern software-delivery practices • Ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver effectively • Clear written and verbal communication skills • Experience collaborating with product and frontend teams • Experience with real-time location, fleet, transportation, or telemetry systems (nice to have) • Experience with geospatial data and PostGIS (nice to have) • Experience implementing WebSockets or Server-Sent Events (nice to have) • Experience with ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch (nice to have) • Experience designing systems that process high-frequency webhook events (nice to have) • Experience with Terraform or Terragrunt (nice to have) • Familiarity with distributed tracing and production observability (nice to have) • Experience taking an early-stage product from architecture through its initial production release (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Contract engagement