We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build and operate backend and platform services in a cloud native environment. The role focuses on distributed systems, event driven architectures and highly reliable APIs, with strong ownership from design to production.
You will work on systems that handle high traffic, integrate with third party providers and internal platforms, and require strong observability, scalability and resilience guarantees.
Responsibilities
Design and implement backend services and platform components using Go and other modern backend languages
Build and evolve event driven architectures using messaging and streaming technologies
Design and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs consumed by internal and external clients
Implement service to service communication patterns with a focus on reliability, idempotency and fault tolerance
Own the full software lifecycle in a you build it, you run it environment
Instrument services with logs, metrics and traces, and actively use observability data for troubleshooting and improvements
Perform root cause analysis of production incidents and implement long term fixes
Collaborate with cross functional teams to design scalable and maintainable solutions




Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
Technical stack
Backend: Go, with experience in other backend languages considered a plus
Cloud and infrastructure: AWS or similar cloud providers
Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Eventing and messaging: Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms
Data stores: SQL and NoSQL databases
Observability: metrics, logging and tracing systems, preferably OpenTelemetry based
CI/CD: automated pipelines and infrastructure as code
What we are looking for
Strong experience building backend systems in production environments
Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud native architectures
Hands on experience with event driven systems and asynchronous workflows
Good understanding of observability beyond dashboards, including data models and performance tradeoffs
Comfortable owning services in production and participating in on call rotations
Pragmatic mindset with attention to code quality, testing and maintainability
Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work collaboratively

📌 Senior Software Developer (Golang) (Barcelona)
🏢 Lawrence Harvey
📍 Barcelona