Senior Backend Golang Engineer
Miratech · Madrid
Company Description
- Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. We are a values-driven organization and our culture of Relentless Performance has enabled over 99% of Miratech's engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding our scope, schedule, and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989.
- Miratech has coverage across 5 continents and operates in over 25 countries around the world. Miratech retains nearly 1000 full-time professionals, and our annual growth rate exceeds 25%.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to design and build scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems. The role involves developing distributed services, designing robust APIs, implementing event-driven architectures, and ensuring high standards of performance, maintainability, and system reliability.
While the primary focus is backend development, occasional contributions to React-based frontend functionality may be required.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services in Golang, including RESTful APIs and stable data contracts that evolve safely over time.
- Implement and manage asynchronous, event-driven communication, with strong guarantees around message reliability, idempotency, error handling, and backward compatibility.
- Design and develop distributed systems and microservices with a focus on scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, and resource utilization in production environments.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
- Conduct code reviews and support knowledge sharing across the engineering team.
- Design code with testability as a core principle, writing and maintaining unit and integration tests for APIs, business logic, and integrations.
- Design and maintain secure APIs and service integrations, applying best practices in authentication, authorization, and identity management.
- Build integrations with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow, Genesys Cloud, and other third-party systems.
- Design and maintain reliable integrations between internal services and external enterprise platforms.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Strong experience building backend applications and services using Golang.
- Solid understanding of concurrency in Golang and asynchronous workflows.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and message handling (e.g., Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies).
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
- Proven experience designing APIs and event schemas with long-term evolution and backward compatibility in mind.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
- Experience with microservice architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong commitment to automated testing, including unit and integration testing.
Nice to Have
- Experience with React and modern frontend development.
- Experience with TypeScript, Protobuf.
- Experience with cloud platforms Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience with identity and access management solutions (Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or similar).
Additional Information
We offer:
- Culture of relentless performance: join an unstoppable technology development team with a 99% project success rate and more than 30% year-over-year revenue growth.
- Competitive pay and benefits: enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, language courses, and a relocation program.
- ForeverRemote work culture: make the most of the flexibility that comes with remote work.
- Growth mindset: reap the benefits of a range of professional development opportunities, including certification programs, mentorship and talent investment programs, internal mobility and internship opportunities.
- Global impact: collaborate on impactful projects for top global clients and shape the future of industries.
- Welcoming multicultural environment: be a part of a dynamic, global team and thrive in an inclusive and supportive work environment with open communication and regular team-building company social events.
- Social sustainability values: join our sustainable business practices focused on five pillars, including IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality.
* Miratech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.