Backend Engineer - Configuration Team

The Configuration team is the backbone of Text. They store and manage the core data, settings, licenses, and properties that dictate how the applications behave for clients. They build and maintain high-traffic services, public APIs (such as the Configuration API), and background processing mechanisms (Work-Queue) that teams across the entire company rely on. They also handle feature flags and analytics proxies (Amplitude). Their work directly impacts the core ecosystem of TextApp, ensuring that client settings and cross-domain tasks function flawlessly.

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience in product-focused environments.
• Strong, hands-on production experience with Go (Golang).
• Solid understanding of Node.js and willingness to work with it for maintenance and migration.
• Solid experience designing, querying, and optimizing relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience operating services in production under high traffic and scale.
• Proven track record of delivering features end-to-end independently.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred).
• Experience working with Redis and background task runners or work-queue mechanisms.

• Develop, scale, and maintain backend services (Configuration API, TextApp services, Integration API) primarily in Go, while also supporting and evolving existing Node.js services.
• Design and optimize relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis).
• Take full ownership of work from ticket picking to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Handle cross-team requests and build configuration pools used by other engineering teams.
• Participate in technical discussions and architectural decisions, advocating pragmatic solutions.
• Migrate and refactor legacy systems into modern, scalable solutions without disrupting production traffic.