Back End Developer

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About the client

The client is a global software platform that powers collaboration for millions of developers. Their team focuses on enabling secure, reliable, and scalable authorization systems. They are modernizing their architecture from a monolithic system to distributed microservices, with a strong culture of collaboration, proactivity, and delivering high-impact features in fast sprint cycles.

About the role

This is a senior backend engineering role within the authorization platform team.

You will contribute to a large-scale migration from a Ruby on Rails monolith to Go-based microservices. The role involves building new services, maintaining existing ones, and ensuring seamless and secure permission flows. The position requires strong technical ownership, proactive collaboration, and a focus on performance, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy new features for the Go-based authorization microservice.
• Migrate authorization logic from the Ruby on Rails monolith into new, independent services.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure the authorization platform is easy to integrate and meets their needs.
• Contribute to the health and maintenance of backend infrastructure and custom libraries.
• Participate in daily standups, weekly sprint planning, and Friday demos.
• Proactively seek out and own tasks from a large backlog of work.

Must have skills

• Minimum 7+ years of professional backend software development experience.
• Significant hands-on experience with Go (Golang), including idioms and best practices (5+ years in production).
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails for working with and migrating legacy logic.
• Experience with MySQL or other relational databases.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work proactively.
• Ability to deploy a pull request to production within the first two weeks.

Nice to have skills

• Knowledge and passion for authorization logic (RBAC, ABAC).
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.

Conditions

• 100% Remote role, with a 5-hour overlap required with UTC-4 (Central/Eastern Time).
• Contractor role – 12-month contract, renewable.
• Full-time dedication (40 hours/week).
• Device provided by the client (no BYOD requirement).

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