Go Backend Developer

Position Overview

Impact Scale is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer (Go) to help build and scale our next-generation performance management platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys developing high-performance backend applications, solving complex technical challenges, and building reliable systems that process large volumes of real-time data.

Join a small engineering team building a real-time high performance management platform. You'll collaborate with senior engineers to deliver new platform capabilities, build backend services and integrations, and continuously improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform. We're looking for someone who takes ownership of their work, writes clean, maintainable code, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• Develop new backend features and services using Go
• Build and maintain APIs and integrations with external partners
• Implement new capabilities within an event-driven microservice platform
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with senior engineers to deliver production-ready solutions
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of the platform

• 4+ years experience developing backend applications in Go
• Experience building REST APIs and integrating with third-party services
• Familiarity with event-driven or microservice architectures and message brokers (NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and Redis
• Comfortable developing containerized applications using Docker
• Understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and backend performance optimization
• Experience working in collaborative engineering teams using Git and code reviews
• Fluency in Russian or Ukrainian is strongly preferred

• Experience with high-throughput or real-time backend systems
• Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience in AdTech, lead generation, martech, or fintech
• Exposure to Rust

This role is based in Downtown Vancouver, WA.

Impact Scale Offers

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Professional development opportunities
• Retirement savings options
• Paid time off
• Catered lunches
• Coffee bar