Textnow

Senior Backend Software Developer (Golang)

Job Description

TextNow is looking for a Senior 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. As a senior developer, you'll also have the opportunity to lead major initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical innovation within the team.


What You’ll Do
  • 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
  • Foster Growth of fellow team members by mentoring them and nurturing their technical skills, empowering them to become exceptionally practical software Developers
  • 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

    • Who You Are
  • Creator of Cool Stuff with a passion for efficiency at scale, leveraging Golang or another strongly typed language along with the computing power of Cloud services
  • Brilliant Collaborator who excels at connecting with team members, transforming complex ideas into clear insights, while actively listening to foster a collaborative environment.
  • Acts Decisively to take actions that efficiently deliver value to our customers and business stakeholders alike
  • Takes Ownership of project with the ability to drive them to completion
  • Respectfully Candid with the ability to tactfully give/receive feedback with various teams across the organization
  • Self-Starter who actively identifies areas of improvement and provides realistic solutions
  • Resourceful and Scrappy with the ability to be strategic, roll up your sleeves, execute, and work cross-functionally
  • Versatile Technologist always interested in learning something new

    • Other Experience
  • Strong Experience in developing API services and shared packages using Golang
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
  • Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
  • Production Experience using relational and non-relational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
  • Familiarity with asynchronous event processing (Kafka, SQS, or others)
  • Experience delivering quality production level microservices, using gRPC or REST

    • Nice to Haves
  • Experience developing CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
  • Experience with telecommunication (i.e. calling/messaging)
  • Experience with migrating from legacy stacks (i.e. PHP, Ruby)

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