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Founding Senior Backend Go Engineer
Golang Cafe $160,000 - $200,000
Remote - United States 🇺🇸
Golang Cafe Please note: Candidates must already be based in and authorized to work in the United States, no exceptions.
About the Company
We're hiring for a well-funded, pre-launch startup building software for a large, underserved industry. The founding team has deep domain expertise and is looking for one of the first backend engineers to help build the platform from the ground up.
This is a true founding engineering role with significant ownership over architecture and technical decisions.
What You'll Work On
You'll own core platform services including:
- Authentication and authorization
- Identity verification (KYC)
- Customer onboarding
- Subscription billing and payments (Stripe)
- Multi-tenant access control
- Backend architecture and APIs
You'll work closely with the Head of Engineering to design and build critical backend systems from scratch.
Tech Stack
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Microservices / Event-driven architecture
- Stripe
- AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
The stack is still evolving, so you'll have significant influence over technical decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong Go experience
- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
- Experience building distributed backend systems
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Comfortable owning deployments, monitoring, and production systems
Nice to Have
- Authentication & authorization systems
- Stripe Billing / subscription platforms
- Payment or financial systems
- KYC / identity verification
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- PCI, SOC2, GDPR or similar compliance experience
Why Join?
- Founding engineer opportunity
- Shape both the architecture and engineering culture
- High ownership and autonomy
- Equity package
- Small, highly technical team
- Remote within the United States
Apply
Send your resume to brandon@golang.cafe
Application process
- Your application goes directly to the Golang Cafe team. We manage hiring for this role on behalf of the company.
- Every CV is read by a human, not a filter. We assess it against the requirements before anything else happens.
- If your application is a strong fit, we'll reach out by email to introduce ourselves and walk you through the next steps with the company.
Application volume is high, so we can't reply to every candidate individually. If you haven't heard from us within 5 working days, please assume we're not moving forward on this occasion. Join our talent network to be considered for future roles.
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