Senior Go Backend Engineer Utrecht

Vacancy: Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

• Do you want to work on a brand-new backend platform built on top of a product already used in 200+ countries?
• Do you enjoy backend engineering where reliability, clarity and long-term ownership matter more than hype?
• Does it excite you to join a young NL engineering team, still in its first year, where your decisions shape the future foundations?
• And do you say yes to systems onboarding 100,000+ new users per month, with massive growth ahead?

Then this may be exactly the role you have been waiting for.

Your employer: global product success, new platform, early-team influence

Your employer builds a globally adopted product that has already proven itself at very large scale. It is used daily in more than 200 countries, trusted by a rapidly growing user base.

To support the next decade of growth, the company is building a completely new platform layer: a control and configuration environment that customers use to operate complex, distributed systems at scale.

This new platform is onboarding 100,000+ new users every month, and demand is rising fast.

The engineering organisation is international, compact and highly technical. The Netherlands team is less than one year old, which gives you rare influence: shaping structure, processes, standards and culture while building software used worldwide.

You join a group that values pragmatism, ownership and steady evolution. Decisions are made close to the code. Engineers are trusted with real responsibility.

Your job: Senior Go Backend Engineer Utrecht

When you join as Senior Go Backend Engineer Utrecht, you will help build the new backend platform that customers use to configure and operate large-scale systems. This platform is central to the company’s long-term roadmap.

Your work includes:
Designing and implementing APIs
Creating and evolving domain logic
Managing PostgreSQL schemas and migrations
Improving performance, reliability and operability
Integrating backend logic with distributed components under the surface

You work in a small senior team where engineering decisions are made based on real usage, team size and long-term maintainability, not trends. The system evolves incrementally, and you grow with it as complexity increases.

Your work touches areas such as:

• Distributed system behaviour under unreliable network conditions
• High-availability, business-critical backend services
• Secure communication, identity and trust models
• Performance and correctness at global scale
• While Go is the primary language for backend development, the focus is on strong systems thinking and fundamentals, not on language dogma. The impact of your decisions will be felt quickly and broadly.
• This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building and owning systems, and who want to join early enough to make a visible mark.

What is required

• At least 2+ years of commercial Go experience
• 7+years o backend development experience
• Experience working on systems serving large user bases
• Strong backend fundamentals and distributed systems understanding
• PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, performance)
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs
• Cloud experience (GCP is a strong plus; AWS/Azure welcome)
• Strong sense of ownership, pragmatic mindset, senior IC level
• Fluency in English, comfortable with nuance and async collaboration
• Eligible only if you hold nationality from a NATO member country
• Experience working at a startup or scaleup is a big plus

What is offered

• Salary between €85.000 and €105.000, depending on experience
• Company stock options, sharing directly in long-term success
• 25 vacation days
• Amazing office, next to the train station
• Flexible, 2 working from home days
• Choice of your own hardware
• Budget for training, conferences and continuous learning
• The rare opportunity to build new backend systems inside a product with massive global adoption
• A small, exceptionally senior team where productivity and impact are unusually high

Ready to build the next-generation platform behind a global product?