Founding Senior Backend Go Engineer

Please note: Candidates must already be based in and authorized to work in the United States, no exceptions.

About the Company

We're hiring for a well-funded, pre-launch startup building software for a large, underserved industry. The founding team has deep domain expertise and is looking for one of the first backend engineers to help build the platform from the ground up.

This is a true founding engineering role with significant ownership over architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Work On

You'll own core platform services including:

• Authentication and authorization
• Identity verification (KYC)
• Customer onboarding
• Subscription billing and payments (Stripe)
• Multi-tenant access control
• Backend architecture and APIs

You'll work closely with the Head of Engineering to design and build critical backend systems from scratch.

Tech Stack

• Go
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Microservices / Event-driven architecture
• Stripe
• AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)

The stack is still evolving, so you'll have significant influence over technical decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong Go experience
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
• Experience building distributed backend systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Comfortable owning deployments, monitoring, and production systems

Nice to Have

• Authentication & authorization systems
• Stripe Billing / subscription platforms
• Payment or financial systems
• KYC / identity verification
• Multi-tenant SaaS
• PCI, SOC2, GDPR or similar compliance experience

Why Join?

• Founding engineer opportunity
• Shape both the architecture and engineering culture
• High ownership and autonomy
• Equity package
• Small, highly technical team
• Remote within the United States

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Send your resume to [email protected]