Middle Backend Engineer (Go)

Remote-friendly Outcome-driven

Want to build backend systems that people actually depend on every day - not just ship features that disappear into a backlog

This is not a typical backend role where you maintain legacy services and close tickets in a vacuum. Youll join a lean high-ownership team building data-driven products used by millions of users.

About BlueThrone

BlueThrone acquires and scales profitable mobile apps.

We dont build from zero; we buy apps with strong potential and turn them into category leaders through better product decisions smarter monetization and disciplined user acquisition.

Today our portfolio serves millions of monthly active users across multiple verticals. Were profitable independent and growing through disciplined bets - not hype. We operate without layers or slow approvals.

We are a lean team of A-players where execution matters more than fancy titles. And we care about one thing: building things that move the needle.

The role

Were looking for a Product-Minded Backend Engineer to join a high-stakes team. Your primary focus will be a platform helping users track complex government processes in real-time - but as a multi-product company you should expect to move across domains as the business evolves. Were looking for someone whos excited by that not intimidated.

This isnt glue code. Youll tackle real challenges: unreliable external data sources event-driven pipelines analytics at scale and keeping a high-dependency system reliable. We need someone who thinks beyond the ticket - you should care about why a feature exists not just how to implement it.

What youll do

• Build & Scale Go Services: Develop high-performance REST APIs for mobile clients and gRPC for internal communication.

• Master the Data: Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries for datasets that grow by the millions daily.

• Event-Driven Pipelines: Own Kafka-based systems - publishing consuming and handling complex retry/failure scenarios.

• AI-First Workflow: Actively integrate AI tools (code gen debugging automation) into your daily work to move 10x faster.

• Think Product-First: Propose solutions challenge requirements own outcomes and take responsibility for system reliability (including on-call rotation).

• Improve Observability: Mature our metrics logging and alerting so problems surface before users notice.

• Collaborate: Work directly with mobile developers on API contracts performance and data consistency.

• Evolution: Over time take ownership of entire product domains and processes not just features.

What you bring

• 2 - 4 years of commercial Go experience: Youve built production systems that handle real traffic. NOT just side projects.

• Strong PostgreSQL skills: You understand indexing strategies transaction isolation and can read a query plan.

• Event-Driven Expertise: Hands-on experience with Kafka NATS or RabbitMQ.

• Python Proficiency: Experience with (or a genuine willingness to learn) Python for our internal tooling and services.

• AI Tooling Mastery: Active use of AI tools in your workflow is a must. We treat automation as a default not an experiment.

• Infrastructure Comfort: Hands-on with Docker CI/CD and deploying what you write.

• The Product Mindset: You ask what problem are we solving before how do I implement this

• Autonomy: Ability to navigate and contribute to a large codebase without hand-holding.

• Communication: English sufficient for daily standups pair debugging and technical syncs.

Bonus points

• Experience building or working with analytics engines - computing aggregations time-series data or serving analytical queries at scale.

• Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks and experiment-driven development.

• Kubernetes experience (we run K8s clusters).

• Familiarity with ClickHouse or similar OLAP databases.

• gRPC and protobuf.

• GitOps workflows (ArgoCD Helm).

• Observability stack exposure (Prometheus Grafana Loki).

Why youll love it here

• Zero Corporate Architecture: We dont have layers of middle management or 4-hour alignment meetings. Youll have a direct line to product impact and the freedom to build things the right way.

• High-Intensity Growth: Weve achieved more in 25 months than most companies do in a decade. If you want to move from Middle to Senior Product Engineer there is no faster vehicle than BlueThrone.

• AI-First Culture: We dont just tolerate AI; we demand it. Youll be encouraged (and expected) to use the latest tools to automate the boring stuff so you can focus on hard engineering.

• Ownership is Reality: You arent just a cog. Youll own entire product domains propose your own solutions and see your code used by millions of people in real-time.

• Extreme Flexibility: We are remote-first and results-oriented. We dont care about your hours; we care about your output and your ability to ship reliable systems

Equal opportunities for everyone

We believe the best teams are diverse teams. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. We consider all candidates regardless of age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin veteran status neurodiversity or disability. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process please let us know.