Senior Backend Engineer(Go)

🌍 Who we are:
Adaptiq is a technology hub specializing in building, scaling, and supporting R&D teams for high-end, fast-growing product companies in a wide range of industries.

📌 Location: Poland

🧩About the Product:
Our client operates a cloud-based platform dedicated to corporate ground transportation management, addressing a multi-billion-dollar market. The solution aggregates multiple transportation providers. such as corporate fleets, ride-hailing services, taxi operators, and limousine networks - into a unified system that helps businesses streamline operations and reduce spend.

The platform’s core challenges include integrating heterogeneous external services, maintaining reliability under high-load conditions, implementing advanced business logic for scheduling and pooling, and providing accurate cost control and reporting. Strong backend engineering is critical to scaling global coverage, ensuring performance, and delivering a seamless user experience.

🌟About the Role:
You will join a cross-functional development team responsible for core backend services that directly impact end users. The role offers full ownership of feature delivery - from reviewing product requirements and defining technical designs alongside architects and product managers, through to coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production. You will serve as first-line support for your services, proactively identify and address reliability and performance issues, and collaborate with other teams to ensure end-to-end system integrity.

📈 Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end development of backend microservices, including design, implementation, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Translate product requirements into scalable technical designs, data models, and RESTful APIs.
• Integrate with external transportation providers and internal systems to enable reliable, real-time workflows.
• Analyze and optimize system performance and database queries under high-load scenarios.
• Propose and implement architectural improvements to enhance resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
• Maintain and refactor existing services to improve code quality, test coverage, and observability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor peers on best practices in coding, testing, and operations.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming and sprint planning, to align deliverables with business priorities.

💻 Required Competence and Skills:

• 5+ years of backend software development experience in Golang
• Proven experience designing and implementing data-driven applications using relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (e.g., Redis).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and the HTTP protocol.
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery.
• Proficiency in writing unit tests and applying automated testing practices.
• Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to understand complex business domains and translate needs into optimal technical solutions.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, high-load applications, and concurrency principles.

➕ Nice to Have:

• Expertise in performance tuning of relational databases.
• Familiarity with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Prior work on high-load, distributed systems.
• Background in building concurrent applications.

🚀 Why Us:
We provide 20 days of vacation leave per calendar year (plus official national holidays of a country you are based in).
We provide full accounting and legal support in all countries we operate.
We utilize a fully remote work model with a powerful workstation and co-working space in case you need it.
We offer a highly competitive package with yearly performance and compensation reviews.