Summary: Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient backend services and manage cloud infrastructure. Highlights: 1. Design and implement scalable, resilient backend services 2. Author high-performance microservices in Go and TypeScript 3. Manage and evolve cloud infrastructure on GCP Description \- Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient backend services handling millions of API requests per month. \- Author high‑performance microservices in Go and TypeScript, ensuring clean, maintainable code and robust test coverage. \- Architect messaging workflows using RabbitMQ (or similar), optimizing for throughput, latency, and fault tolerance. \- Manage and evolve our cloud infrastructure on GCP \- VMs, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, networking, and monitoring. \- Drive technical decisions: from database schema design to distributed cache strategies and sharing approaches. Requirements \- 3\+ years of backend experience building production systems in Go and TypeScript. \- Hands‑on expertise with GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, IAM). \- Proven track record designing message‑driven architectures with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar. \- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting at scale. \- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles: consensus, leader election, partition tolerance. \- Familiarity with cryptographic concepts (key management, signatures, encryption) and a curiosity to dig deeper. Nice to haves \- Background in Rust, or systems programming. \- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager). \- Open‑source contributions or side projects showcasing your distributed systems chops. \- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). Benefits Generous pay, high\-impact developer\-first culture, high\-ownership engineering team, learning and growth opportunities. Job Type: Full\-time Pay: 70,000\.00€ \- 90,000\.00€ per year Application Question(s): * How many years of expertise do you have with GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/Spanner, IAM)? * How many years of experience with backend building production systems in Go and TypeScript? * Do you have expertise with designing message‑driven architectures with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar? Work Location: Remote