Backend Engineer (Golang, PHP)

BetterMe — a global wellness ecosystem empowering millions to become better — physically, mentally, and emotionally. We build what makes people better and keep challenging ourselves to inspire others.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Core team and help build reliable, scalable backend solutions for a product used by millions of users. This role combines developing new features, optimizing existing services, and contributing to the evolution of the system architecture.

Your impact:

• Develop new backend functionality using Go as the primary programming language, with occasional work on the PHP codebase (~80/20).

• Migrate business logic from legacy PHP monoliths to Go-based services.

• Ensure the stability, performance, and reliability of production systems.

• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, including CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence initiatives.

• Collaborate closely with product teams and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions within the domain.

• Conduct code reviews with a focus on best practices, code quality, and maintainability.

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.

• Commercial experience with Go (Golang).

• Experience working with PHP, preferably Symfony or Laravel.

• Strong understanding of idiomatic Go patterns, best practices, and application design principles.

• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.

• Experience with asynchronous messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, or similar).

• Experience with caching and in-memory data stores (Redis / AWS ElastiCache).

• Exposure to infrastructure and operations, including Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production troubleshooting.

• Experience working with Linux and Docker.

• Ability to write and maintain unit tests, ensuring code quality and reliability.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with complex systems and domains.

Nice to have:

• Experience migrating from PHP monoliths to Go services.

• Strong experience with PHP 8+ (Symfony or Laravel).

• Experience building and operating distributed systems and high-load services.

• Hands-on experience with cloud and container orchestration technologies, including AWS services, Kubernetes, Helm, and service mesh solutions (e.g., Istio).

• Experience with microservice architectures and REST APIs.

• Knowledge of architectural design principles such as Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.