Senior Backend Engineer, Go/Python

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Proximity Works

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Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

Proximity Works is a global tech company specializing in Artificial Intelligence and SaaS solutions. They focus on building high-performance software that leverages cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance productivity and transform business operations. Their services include AI-powered SaaS solutions, UX design, and product engineering to help companies scale effectively. Proximity Works collaborates with industry giants like Nasdaq, Disney, and ESPN, offering expertise in AI strategy, machine learning, and high-caliber product development.

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Develop server-side logic, maintain central database, and ensure high performance and responsiveness to front-end requests. • Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code. • Own the entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, fixes, and improvements. • Solve complex technical problems and perform objective analysis before writing code. • Develop highly scalable and performant backends based on event-driven architecture. • Build robust, secure, and scalable microservices. • Split features into tasks and evolve backend architecture. • Coordinate cross-functionally with QAs and PMs to meet business objectives and compliance standards. • Participate in, design, and drive the code review process. • Implement RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway. • Ensure sub-second server response and implement appropriate relational, document, key, object, graph, index, and messaging data stores as needed. • Track defects, triage bugs with business owners and users, and manage backlog. • Take ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure. • Evaluate relevant technologies and drive architecture and design discussions. • Own and deliver end-to-end backend features ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability. • Collaborate with product stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives. • Build reusable services and contribute to core engineering libraries. • Document and demonstrate solutions through documentation, DFDs, and code comments. • Work closely with Product to drive KPIs and align engineering goals with business outcomes. • Stay agile and adapt quickly to evolving requirements, scope, and priorities.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang. • Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python. • Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies. • Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux. • Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments. • Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newrelic). • Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB). • Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases. • Proficient in building GraphQL APIs. • Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git). • Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation. • Excellent attention to detail. • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. • To have mentored a team of 2-3 engineers. • To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment. • To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems. • To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities. • To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments. • Bonus points for: Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos. • Bonus points for: Experience deploying serverless applications to GCP. • Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision. • Experience with AWS stack. • Machine learning experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly. • Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field. • Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.