
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Key Skills
Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer based in Netherlands.
As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you’ll help build and evolve a mission-critical transaction platform that enables secure cryptocurrency transfers between financial institutions, fintechs, and exchanges worldwide. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges where data integrity, tenant isolation, reliability, and auditability are essential in a regulated environment. Working primarily with Go and PostgreSQL, you’ll shape core architectural decisions, improve platform scalability, and ensure predictable performance as transaction volumes grow. You’ll also help establish effective engineering practices for AI-assisted development, ensuring generated code meets rigorous production standards. In this remote-first, collaborative environment, you’ll partner with product, compliance, and customer-facing teams while mentoring engineers and taking ownership of the systems you deliver.
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Design, develop, and maintain core components of a distributed transaction platform.
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Build resilient systems that preserve data correctness, tenant isolation, and auditability, including when failures occur.
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Improve scalability as transaction volumes and the number of institutions per node increase, maintaining predictable latency and database performance.
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Produce clear technical design documents and provide constructive, detailed reviews of architecture proposals and code.
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Integrate AI coding agents into daily development workflows and improve specifications, context, and review practices to ensure generated code is safe for production.
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Collaborate with product, compliance, and customer-facing teams to translate regulatory obligations and customer needs into reliable software.
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Take end-to-end ownership of production systems, including tracing, alerting, incident response, and post-incident follow-ups.
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Mentor other engineers, share technical expertise, and contribute to the team's engineering standards.
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Participate in the on-call rotation to support platform reliability and operational continuity.
Requirements
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Typically 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of delivering complex technical projects end to end and helping other engineers grow.
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Strong distributed systems design expertise, including asynchronous processing, failure handling, and systems where correctness takes priority over feature delivery.
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Strong Go experience, or substantial production experience with another statically typed backend language such as Java, Kotlin, Rust, or C#, with the ability and motivation to start shipping Go code within the first few weeks.
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Deep PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, query planning, locking, transaction isolation levels, live database migrations, and multi-tenant data management.
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Practical cloud engineering experience with AWS or GCP, including IAM, networking, managed databases, queues, and storage. Ability to read and modify Terraform and troubleshoot production issues using traces and logs.
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Daily experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor, including writing specifications, providing context, decomposing tasks, critically reviewing generated code, and understanding where these tools can fail.
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Strong written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly and concisely in a remote environment that relies on documentation and asynchronous collaboration.
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Solid security fundamentals for handling sensitive data, including encryption in transit and at rest, key management, data minimization, and least-privilege access.
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Familiarity with any of the following is an advantage: applied cryptography, decentralized identity protocols such as DIDs, verifiable credentials and DIDComm, regulated finance, payments, compliance frameworks such as the Travel Rule, AML, ISO 20022, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls, crypto and blockchain concepts, Node.js, TypeScript, queue and workflow systems, or modern observability tooling.
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Blockchain experience is not required. Candidates from a broad range of backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including those returning to work after a career break or progressing along a different career path.
Benefits
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Flexible remote work: Work remotely from anywhere.
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Home-office stipend: $1,000 to support your home-working setup, available for use within your first year of employment.
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MacBook Pro: Choose a model that suits your needs in coordination with your manager.
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Unlimited paid time off: Take the time you need to rest and recharge.
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Country-specific benefits: Statutory benefits and contributions managed through an employer-of-record arrangement.
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Inclusive workplace: A commitment to equal employment opportunity and a working environment that values diversity and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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Core Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain core components of a distributed transaction platform while ensuring data correctness and system scalability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate regulatory requirements into reliable software and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong expertise in distributed systems and Go or similar statically typed languages. Candidates must have deep PostgreSQL knowledge and practical experience with cloud infrastructure and AI-assisted development tools.
Benefits
- Flexible remote work
- Home-office stipend
- MacBook Pro
- Unlimited paid time off
- Statutory benefits
About Jobgether
Industry: Internet Marketplace Platforms
Company size: 11-50 employees
Jobgether is a career navigation platform built for senior professionals competing in the remote job market. Hiring systems were designed for volume and keyword matching, not for 15 or 20 years of nonlinear experience. That structural mismatch is why strong profiles get filtered out before a human ever sees them. Our platform diagnoses where a search is breaking, corrects how experience is positioned, and connects professionals to the companies where their background creates real value. The goal is not more applications. It is the right visibility in the right places. Our mission is to ensure no senior professional remains invisible in the global remote market, not because they lack the skills, but because the system failed to read them correctly.