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Golang Backend Engineer
Overview
Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.
Job Description
We’re working with a late stage startup that helps companies manage benefits for employees. They’re pushing to get a set of new features out by January so that their clients can use them for the 2025 calendar year.
The engineering org as a whole is 40 people, spread out across the U.S. Their backend is essentially a set of go microservices that communicate with each other via grpc and protobuf and the backend engineering team is currently around ~30 engineers.
They’re looking to add an additional 5 go devs across a handful of squads to help them increase feature velocity going into the end of the year.
Responsibilities
- - Assist in pushing out new features by January
- - Work with a team of 40 engineers
- - Collaborate to manage benefits for employees
Required Skills
- - 5+ years backend engineering experience
- - Go experience
- - Service oriented architecture experience
- - Consulting experience
Benefits
- - $7-$10k/month (84,000 - 120,000 $/year)
- - 40 hours per week
- - 3 months contract with possibility of extension
- - Immediate start
- - 5 hours overlap with PT
- - Series B company stage