Adjoe

Staff Go Backend Developer (f/m/d)

Hamburg, Remote. Posted 18 days ago

The role

You will own the architectural integrity, reliability, and long-term evolution of distributed systems. You will define service boundaries, concurrency models, and architectural patterns for Go microservices that power real-time ad targeting.

What you will do

  • Own the architectural integrity, reliability, and long-term evolution of distributed systems
  • Define service boundaries, concurrency models, and runtime optimizations for Go microservices
  • Define architectural patterns across the ad interaction chain
  • Govern hybrid messaging architecture using SNS/SQS and Kafka
  • Standardize backend data patterns across DynamoDB, relational, and analytical data stores
  • Ensure core ad scoring pipelines remain resilient under massive load
  • Establish org-wide streaming standards, schema evolution, and CDC patterns
  • Lead high-stakes, zero-downtime database migrations and deprecations
  • Partner with Data Science team to architect runtime infrastructure for predictive models
  • Drive alignment across squads through RFCs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend development experience
  • Deep production Go expertise in distributed environments
  • Deep experience architecting and standardizing asynchronous microservice communication using Kafka, SQS/SNS, and Kinesis
  • Understanding of database internals, distributed storage trade-offs, and low-level web standards
  • Ability to grasp complex technical topics, distributed systems trade-offs, and applied mathematics
  • Fluent and precise communication in spoken and written English
  • Ability to define org-level SLIs/SLOs and mentor Senior engineers

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with continuous profiling (e.g., Pyroscope, goroutine dumps)
  • Chaos engineering drills
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Kubernetes, or AWS cloud networking

About the company

adjoe builds the technologies behind mobile apps growth and monetization. Their core product Playtime Arcade is a global leader in rewarded advertising.