Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Location(s): San Francisco, CA

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain the backend systems that power our e-commerce marketplace. This role spans API development, data pipelines, and core product backend features.

• Work closely with product managers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Design clean, maintainable, and well-documented APIs used by engineering teams and third-party integrations.
• Lead architectural design discussions and guide technical direction across backend systems.
• Review pull requests and provide technical guidance on implementation decisions across the team.
• Develop and support Airflow data pipelines using Python DAGs for real-time and batch processing.

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years writing production Go (Golang).
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems on GCP or similar cloud platform.
• Demonstrated ability to design clean, maintainable REST and gRPC APIs.
• Experience writing and maintaining Airflow DAGs in Python or similar pipeline tooling.
• Experience building and operating batch jobs and event-driven systems using Kafka or similar message streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams.

• Experience in e-commerce or marketplace domains
• Experience with GCP-native services (e.g. BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run).