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Impact Scale LLC is seeking an experienced, performance-driven Backend Engineer (Go) to help build, refine, and scale our next-generation, real-time performance management platform. Joining a small, elite engineering team, you will collaborate with fellow senior engineers to deliver mission-critical platform capabilities, engineer high-throughput backend services, and continuously push the boundaries of platform concurrency and reliability.
This role is ideal for a systems-minded engineer who takes deep ownership of their architectural footprint, writes highly optimized code, and thrives when dealing with the challenges of massive real-time data ingestion. You will play a vital role in building fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of processing large volumes of live data with absolute stability.
Key Responsibilities

Backend Go Engineering API Architecture

• Service Development: Design, build, and deploy high-performance backend features and standalone microservices using Go (Golang).

• API Integration Engine: Build, document, and maintain ultra-reliable REST APIs and complex integrations with external data partners and programmatic networks.

• Clean Code Standards: Write exceptionally clean, well-tested (unit/integration tests), and easily maintainable code structured for long-term scalability.

• Peer Governance: Participate in technical peer code reviews and contribute to the continuous refinement of internal coding guardrails and deployment processes.

Event-Driven Microservices Concurrency Scaling

• Event-Driven Implementation: Architecture and launch new decoupled capabilities within a distributed, event-driven microservices platform.

• Message Broker Management: Configure and scale message brokers and event streaming lines (specifically NATS, Kafka, or RabbitMQ).

• Concurrency Optimization: Apply deep knowledge of Go routines, channels, asynchronous processing, and memory allocation to eliminate system bottlenecks.

• Database Optimization: Design schemas and optimize heavy read/write transactional operations utilizing PostgreSQLand Rediscaching layers.

Containerization Technical Workflows

• Containerized Ecosystems: Develop, test, and containerize modular backend applications utilizing Dockerwithin staging and production infrastructure.

• Version Control Operations: Manage complex code branches, continuous system integration pipelines, and release environments utilizing Git.

Qualifications Skills

Required

• Experience Depth: 4+ years of professional backend software development experience explicitly engineering applications in Go (Golang).

• API Fluency: Proven history of building robust REST APIs and handling complex third-party system data integrations.

• Architectural Literacy: Demonstrated experience working inside distributed microservice environments and utilizing heavy message brokers.

• Data Layer Stack: Hands-on operational experience building and tuning storage solutions with PostgreSQL and Redis.

• Core Attributes: Native grasp of concurrent programming concepts, an aggressive execution bias, high accountability, and an exceptional ability to solve ambiguous technical scaling problems.

• Linguistic Symmetry: Fluency in Russian or Ukrainian is strongly preferred to facilitate rapid synchronization with our core technical team.

Preferred Nice to Haves

• High-Throughput Mastery: Exposure to ultra-high-throughput or real-time event-streaming backend layers.

• Analytical Storage: Prior experience working with column-oriented analytical databases, specifically ClickHouse.

• System Observability: Familiarity with modern cloud observability and telemetry monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or OpenTelemetryspecifications).

• Industry Domain: Experience operating inside technical AdTech, FinTech, MarTech, or high-volume lead generation environments.

• Polyglot Exposure: Practical familiarity or engineering exposure to Rust..

Compensation Benefits

• Health Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance packages (Available following a standard 90-day introductory period).

• Retirement: Corporate retirement savings plan options with a traditional 401(k) (Eligible after 90 days of continuous employment).

• Time Off: Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) allotment and observed holiday schedule.

• Perks Luxury Culture: Daily catered lunches, a fully stocked premium coffee and tea bar, unlimited snacks, and free garage parking. Employees also enjoy routine professional development opportunities within an elite, growth-driven leadership environment in Downtown Vancouver, WA.