Intermediate Backend Software Developer (Golang)
at TextNow
Remote, British Columbia, Canada -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 15 Apr, 2025 | Not Specified | 16 Jan, 2025 | N/A | Kubernetes,Rest,Redis,Mariadb,Infrastructure,Design Principles | No | No |
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Description:
We believe communication belongs to everyone. We exist to democratize phone service. TextNow is evolving the way the world connects and that’s because we’re made up of people with curious minds who bring an optimistic, yet critical lens into the work we do. We’re the largest provider of free phone service in the nation. And we’re just getting started.
Join us in our mission to break down barriers to communication and free the flow of conversation for people everywhere.
TextNow is looking for an Intermediate Backend Software Developer to join our Core Experience Team. At TextNow, we’re on a mission to transform the telecom landscape by building a platform that powers tens of millions of calls and messages every day, driving innovation and delivering exceptional user experiences. Our Core Experiences Team is at the heart of this mission, designing and developing scalable, high-performance backend systems that serve our customers.
In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend services that power our high-traffic platform. You’ll work with technologies like AWS, Golang, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, and a microservice architecture to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. Additionally, you’ll be working with databases and event streaming platforms to handle high-volume data and real-time communication. Handling tens of millions of calls and messages daily, you’ll focus on keeping our platform fast, responsive, and highly available.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
- Experience developing API services with gRPC or REST
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
- Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
- Experience using relational or non-relational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
Responsibilities:
- Develop and Maintain Core Backend Services taking responsibility for helping to guide the architecture, design, and implement new & existing microservices
- Maintain a High Bar of Quality for the team, producing readable code, writing testable code, refactoring legacy systems, actively contributing to development standards and cross-team architectural reviews
- Participate in a Rotating On-Call, responsible for service uptime, availability of critical functions, and performing root cause analysis of incidents to identify steps towards lasting remediation
- Organize and communicate the technical details of upcoming projects through our architectural review process
- Collaborate with other backend teams in guiding the development of our shared libraries
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Application Programming / Maintenance
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
1
Remote, Canada