Backend Engineer (Golang)

About the position SKELAR is a venture builder that constructs companies, enabling founders to create leading consumer businesses in global markets such as EdTech, Mental Health, Petcare, and FashionTech. Our tech products have received accolades from Product Hunt and The Webby Awards, garnered thousands of positive TrustPilot reviews, and are used by over 10 million people worldwide. This success is driven by our strong teams, as our specialists are SKELAR's core value. We foster an environment of expertise and unlimited opportunities for professional growth, seeking individuals who embrace challenges. We are currently searching for a Backend Engineer (Golang) to join reputed company. The challenges for this role involve building a new version of an existing internal payment service that supports a high-traffic project. This is a greenfield project with no legacy code or outdated decisions, offering a fresh start from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Build a new version of an existing internal payment service.
• Take ownership of features from ideation to deployment and monitoring.
• Think from a business perspective, solving business needs rather than just technical tasks.
• Independently understand context, explain technical decisions, and guide implementation.
• Quickly and effectively enhance service functionality with Go expertise.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience with Golang.
• Ability to take a feature from idea to production with monitoring.
• Responsibility for own results without passing them on.
• Business-oriented thinking, solving business needs.
• Ability to understand context independently and explain technical solutions.
• Experience with architecture as a practical application, not just theory.

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience in a greenfield project without legacy code, workarounds, or bugs.
• Architectural freedom.
• Influence on decisions.
• Ability to choose the tech stack and tools.
• Space for process formation.

Benefits

• Clean project without legacy code, workarounds, or bugs.
• Architectural freedom.
• Influence on decisions.
• Opportunity to choose the tech stack and tools.
• Space for process formation.
• Direct communication, trust, and no micromanagement.
• Networking and experience sharing opportunities.
• Access to expertise from co-founders and market specialists.
• Exclusive domain education through internal training programs.
• Involvement in systemic support for Ukraine reputed company the SKELAR foundation.
• Productive work environment with amenities like a gym, climbing wall, green zones, and libraries.
• Support for daily comfort including breakfasts, lunches, sports activities (Kyiv) or compensation (Warsaw), medical insurance, paid business trips, and corporate discounts.

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