We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable low-latency distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. You'll be responsible for— Writing clean high-quality high-performance and maintainable code Solving complex technical problems Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards Participating in and driving code reviews Building robust secure and scalable microservices Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational document key object or graph data stores index stores and messaging stores as needed Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure Evaluating relevant technologies influencing and driving architecture and design discussions Architecting & designing the platform Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow performing code reviews system monitoring & delegation Writing documentation & create engineering processes Working as an individual contributor Helping drive KPIs with Product Taking ownership of backend systems Helping with unit tests & QA process Scaling the engineering team System scaling to hundreds of millions of users Working with product managers and designs Requirements What you need— Overall 5-8 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional) Experience with Go K8 Docker AWS and CI/CD Experience with micro web frameworks - like Springboot Gin/Mux Experience in working with microservice architectures Transactional systems and Distributed environments Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Hystrix) Experience with MySQL and NoSQL (Cassandra Redis DynamoDB) Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel ActiveMQ DevOps experience Experience with AWS stack Excellent attention to detail Outstanding written and verbal communication skills To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional) To have contributed to open-source projects To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth Proficiency in English Experience with Web3(optional) Benefits What you get— 100% remote team Work from anywhere you please Flexible timings Set your own hours and create a productive schedule that works for you Best in class salary We hire only the best and we pay accordingly About Us— Proximity is the trusted technology design and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports Media and Entertainment companies in the world. We're headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto Dubai Mumbai and Bangalore. Since 2019 Proximity has built high-impact scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today we are a global team of engineers designers product managers and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.