Senior Backend Golang Engineer

As a Senior Backend Golang Engineer at Ashford-Benjamin, you develop the services connecting trading and research workflows for a highly successful and fast-growing crypto trading firm. You make key design decisions, tackle performance bottlenecks, and take responsibility for systems running in production. The role suits an engineer who enjoys distributed systems, works closely with business users, and combines hands-on delivery with mentoring and technical leadership. AI-assisted development is part of the role, with you retaining responsibility for the quality of what you ship.

What you bring

• 5+ years building backend software with experience supporting demanding production environments
• Professional experience using Go, or substantial backend expertise combined with agentic development experience
• A strong grasp of concurrency, memory usage, and application performance
• A track record of designing distributed services and guiding other engineers
• Comfort with event-driven systems, messaging platforms, and network APIs
• Experience deploying containerized services in cloud environments
• Willingness to own production support and on-call responsibilities

Nice to have

• Trading or crypto experience