Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations
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JobgetherVacation rental technology
Must be physically based in Europe to ensure effective collaboration with colleagues and internal stakeholders.Full-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 6 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer
- Required Skills
- GraphQLPHPGoRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have at least 6 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Have advanced proficiency in PHP and/or Go (Golang), and be able to work across both technologies.
- Have experience designing, developing, and operating high-traffic customer-facing applications and distributed systems.
- Have experience decomposing monolithic applications or extracting independent services.
- Have strong API design experience, including REST, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
- Be familiar with event-driven architectures, service-oriented systems, and Domain-Driven Design principles.
- Have practical experience using AI-powered coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
- Have experience with cloud infrastructure and services; AWS experience is a plus.
- Be familiar with message queues and asynchronous processing technologies such as AWS SQS.
- Be physically based in Europe.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain backend services using PHP and Go.
- Extract services from the existing monolithic architecture by defining service boundaries, ownership models, and migration strategies.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape technical priorities.
- Design and implement APIs for AI agents and automated workflows.
- Optimize page speed, response times, latency, and system reliability with frontend engineering teams.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and scalable engineering practices.
- Improve event-driven and service-oriented architectures using Domain-Driven Design principles.
- Integrate AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows.
- Monitor and operate high-traffic backend systems and third-party integrations.
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