Senior Backend Engineer, Golang - Tax Research Platform
Summary
Senior backend engineer building Go services for a global tax research platform (IBFD via Talcom), focused on search and content delivery and a migration from legacy search to Elasticsearch, with microservices and event-driven pipelines. Hybrid: 3 days/week from a Talcom office in Novi Sad; up to ~€3,100 net/month.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen the team behind a global Tax Research Platform used by professionals to search, browse and access specialist tax content.
You will work primarily in Go on backend services supporting search, content delivery and related platform capabilities.
One of the main current initiatives is the modernisation of the search landscape, including the migration from legacy search technology towards Elasticsearch.
The team already has an established Team Lead and Product Owner. The key need is another strong senior backend engineer who can work independently, take responsibility for substantial features and help raise the technical level of the wider team.
What you will do
What we are looking for
Elasticsearch is particularly important for this hire.
Candidates with strong experience in search infrastructure, indexing or ingestion pipelines are especially relevant. However, a strong Go backend engineer with closely related experience in event-driven systems, data processing or search can also be considered.
Around eight years of backend engineering experience is a useful benchmark, but it is not a strict requirement.
A candidate with approximately five or six years of experience can still be highly relevant if the experience demonstrates genuine seniority and includes substantial work with Go, Elasticsearch or search-related systems.
The team
You will join an existing international engineering team with an established Team Lead and Product Owner.
The team works with daily stand-ups and broader quarterly planning.
The main need is another senior backend engineer who can independently take responsibility for significant areas of work, support the Team Lead and help other engineers when needed.
You should be comfortable taking a feature or technical problem, defining the approach, breaking the work down and driving it through delivery rather than waiting for every task to be fully specified.
Working model
The role is based in Serbia through Talcom.
The working model is 3 days per week from a Talcom office and 2 days from home.
The role includes an initial one-week visit to the Netherlands, with occasional follow-up visits when useful for onboarding, planning or team collaboration.
Hiring process
- Introductory screening with Talcom
- IBFD interview focused on relevant experience, team fit and working style
- Technical assignment
- Technical interview and discussion of the solution
- Final decision
Candidates may use AI tools during the technical assignment, provided they are fully transparent about which tools were used and how they contributed to the solution.
Compensation
Up to approximately €3,100 net per month.