Backend Engineer (Golang, PHP)

Company: BetterMe
Employment type: FULL_TIME

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.