Senior Backend Engineer (Go) — AI product
We are New Wave Devs, a senior engineering team. We are hiring a Senior Go engineer to embed long-term with our client, a European (Netherlands-based) AI-native design and creative-tools company building the backend of their AI "Studio" product.
It is a fast-paced product team: new frontier AI models are pushed into production within a day or two of release. You will own real pieces of the backend and work directly with their team.
What you will do:
- Design and scale Go microservices that manage the lifecycle of AI generations (image, video, audio, 3D, vector)
- Handle long-running, resource-intensive inference tasks and high data throughput
- Work with AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda), Kafka and SQS for async processing, ConnectRPC / gRPC / GraphQL
- Bridge AI model outputs into user-facing creative workflows
You should have:
- 5+ years backend, Go-first
- Strong AWS (EKS/K8s), Kafka or SQS, gRPC/ConnectRPC, microservices at scale
- Ownership mindset, comfortable when specs are not perfect, able to switch between shipping fast and building for scale
- Good English (daily work with the client team)
Nice to have: AI/ML model serving, inference pipelines, GPU-accelerated workloads, or genuine hands-on interest in gen-AI tools.
We offer: long-term full-time role, competitive rate, fully remote, fast start (days, not weeks).