Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) at Kake

Role overview

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a high-scale product engineering team focused on building and evolving critical platform services used by millions of users worldwide. In this role, you’ll design and develop high-performance backend systems that power core user experiences while ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on a highly visible product area while collaborating with cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang.
• Develop and optimize distributed systems that support high traffic volumes and mission-critical platform functionality.
• Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design and manage scalable data storage solutions using MongoDB.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain production services running on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Improve system observability, reliability, and operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and performance optimization.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to technical decisions that shape the future of the platform.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term improvements to system stability and resilience.
• Strong experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems using Golang.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and backend scalability patterns.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB, including scalable data modeling and performance optimization.
• Strong experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, including deployment, monitoring, and resource management.
• Proven track record of delivering reliable systems in high-traffic, large-scale environments.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.

Qualifications

• Improve system observability, reliability, and operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and performance optimization.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to technical decisions that shape the future of the platform.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term improvements to system stability and resilience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and backend scalability patterns.
• Proven track record of delivering reliable systems in high-traffic, large-scale environments.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.
• Exposure to developer platforms and internal tooling that support engineering productivity.
• Familiarity with large-scale consumer-facing products serving millions of users.
• US Timezone Overlap:6-8 hours overlap with PST
• Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Technology in this role

• AWS: Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ensuring performance, scalability, and .
• Kubernetes: Deploy, monitor, and maintain production services running on .
• Go: Listed by the employer as part of the role’s technical requirements.
• Golang: Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using .
• MongoDB: Design and manage scalable data storage solutions using .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) position at Kake is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a high-scale product engineering team focused on building and evolving critical platform services used by millions of users worldwide. In this role, you’ll design and…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang.”; “Develop and optimize distributed systems that support high traffic volumes and mission-critical platform functionality.”; “Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself.

About Kake

Kake describes itself as a remote-first community of experienced software engineers that helps client teams add individual engineers or full engineering groups. Its model combines technical vetting and human selection with AI-supported processes; Kake engineers work as dedicated members of client teams rather than as a separate outsourced delivery queue.

The company recruits across frontend, backend, mobile, quality engineering, data and DevOps. Its public hiring pages emphasize end-to-end ownership, collaboration with product and design, and engineering judgment. The exact client, product, team structure and employment terms can vary by opening, so candidates should verify those specifics in the individual listing.

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