Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Driving architectural decisions in a fully remote capacity, the full-time Staff Software Engineer will lead the decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices, develop scalable services, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring the integrity of the platform's distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the decomposition of the PHP monolith into well-scoped Go microservices, making decisions about service boundaries and migration sequencing
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Go services and API gateways, while participating in technical design discussions
• Architect and evolve distributed data infrastructure, integrating with third-party APIs and supporting Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in backend systems and distributed architectures
• Expert-level proficiency in Go, including idiomatic patterns and concurrency model
• Demonstrable experience in decomposing a PHP monolith and understanding migration strategies
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Temporal for workflow orchestration
• Strong networking fundamentals, including familiarity with routing, switching, and network device telemetry