Senior Backend Developer - Full Remote (EU only)

About the company

At Jobtome - https : / / weare.jobtome.com / - we are a HR Tech company building modern web applications used by companies to manage complex hiring and recruitment workflows at scale.

Our products are highly interactive, data-driven, and designed for real-world usage, not demos.

We work with a strong product mindset, short feedback loops, and a pragmatic engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and long-term maintainability.

The role

We are looking for a Senior Golang Backend Developer to join our engineering team and take ownership of critical backend systems and services.

You will work on the design, development, and evolution of backend services that power our products, contributing to architectural decisions, improving system reliability, and shaping how backend engineering is done across the company.

This is a hands-on senior role : you will write production code every day and be deeply involved in technical and architectural decisions that have real impact.

What you will do

Design, develop, and maintain backend services written in Go

Build and evolve APIs (GraphQL and / or REST) that support complex product workflows

Work on and design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend architectures

Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, data engineers and designers

Contribute to data modeling, business logic, and performance optimization

Perform code reviews and participate in architectural and technical discussions

Improve code quality, testing strategy, observability, and system resilience

Actively work on refactoring, technical debt, and long-term improvements

Take ownership of backend features from design to production

Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives)

Tech stack

You will work with (and are expected to be comfortable with) :

Go (Golang)

API design (GraphQL and / or REST)

PostgreSQL (or similar relational databases)

BigQuery and other NoSQL databases

Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures

Docker and CI / CD pipelines (Gitlab pipelines preferred)

Cloud infrastructure mindset (GCP or other providers)

Observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing)

Testing (unit and / or integration)

Kubernetes

Nice to have points :

Working experience with Python

Exposure to Protobuf and Grpc

What We’re Looking For

We consider "senior" someone who can :

Work independently without needing perfect specifications

Take ownership of complex features and systems

Make informed architectural decisions and explain trade-offs

Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured code

Proactively identify problems and propose solutions

Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Raise the overall quality bar of the team through example and reviews

Working model

Full remote, EU only

Core hours with flexibility outside of them

Daily working language : English