Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy, verifying good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The Senior Backend Engineer will act as a technical leader, driving design, development, and deployment of innovative software solutions while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and debug components for distributed systems that operate at large scale and high speed.
• Own and drive nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, availability, and security.
• Develop and maintain unit and integration tests, achieving robust code and functional coverage.
• Produce enterprise‑class documentation for internal and external collaboration.
• Break down complex tasks into manageable components, plan, and execute effectively.
• Collaborate with team members to elevate technology standards and consistently apply best practices.
• Participate actively in an agile environment to deliver high‑quality software solutions.

Required profile

• 5‑7 years of significant hands‑on coding experience with Golang, preferably in a product development environment.
• Strong programming and design fundamentals with excellent problem‑solving and coding skills.
• Exceptional analytical and reasoning abilities, with talent for visualizing processes and outcomes.
• Passion for continuous learning and building high‑performance systems, with solid understanding of concurrency and multi‑threading.
• Experience architecting microservices and developing RESTful APIs.
• Prior experience with high‑throughput, low‑latency storage, cloud computing, NoSQL databases, big data analytics, machine learning services, or large‑scale systems is a plus.

Required skills

• Golang
• Microservices architecture
• RESTful APIs
• Concurrency and multi‑threading
• High‑throughput, low‑latency storage
• Cloud computing
• NoSQL databases
• Big data analytics
• Machine learning services