About the Role

We're looking for a senior backend engineer who writes production Go and enjoys building reliable, distributed systems. You'll join a small, early engineering team and take ownership of core backend services, from design through to running them in production.

This role sits close to the infrastructure: the services you build will orchestrate cloud resources, handle long-running background work, and need to behave correctly when things fail. We value reliability and transparent design over cleverness.

What you'll do

- Design and build backend services and APIs in Go
- Build and maintain asynchronous job processing: queues, retries, idempotent operations and failure recovery
- Integrate with cloud provider APIs and third-party services
- Design data models and write performant, safe PostgreSQL code
- Build secure, multi-tenant REST APIs with authentication and role-based access control
- Add metrics, structured logging and alerting to everything you ship
- Take part in architecture decisions, code reviews and a shared on-call rotation

What we are looking for

Must have

- 5 years of backend engineering,



with at least 3 years writing production Go
- Solid concurrency in Go: goroutines, channels, context cancellation and timeouts, and graceful shutdown
- Strong PostgreSQL: schema design, transactions, row locking, migrations and query tuning
- Experience building distributed or asynchronous systems: job queues, retries, idempotency and failure handling
- Comfort with Linux, networking basics (DNS, TLS, HTTP, TCP) and debugging on real servers
- REST API design, authentication (sessions, JWT, MFA) and multi-tenant access control
- Docker and Kubernetes experience, as a user deploying services
- Writing tests, including integration tests against real dependencies

Nice to have

- Linux containers and virtualisation internals
- Google Cloud Platform (GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud SQL) and Terraform
- Workflow engines such as Temporal
- TLS/certificate automation, reverse proxies (nginx, Caddy)
- Storage systems, snapshots and backup/restore tooling
- Subscription billing integrations (e.g. Stripe)

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Go) (Kerala)
🏢 Planet Media India
📍 Kerala