Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airspace Link, Inc. is an innovative company focused on integrating drones into the national airspace. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer (Golang) to design and maintain backend services and APIs for their cloud-based drone operations management platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering AirHub® Portal
- Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems using Go (Golang), Kubernetes, and modern engineering practices
- Develop highly reliable services that support drone operations, geospatial workflows, and customer-facing capabilities
- Take ownership of complex features from initial design through deployment, monitoring, optimization, and iteration
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Design and implement RESTful and gRPC APIs supporting internal and external applications
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Platform, Data, UAS experts, and customer-facing teams to deliver solutions aligned with customer needs
- Build and maintain automated testing practices to ensure software quality and reliability
- Improve system observability, performance, and operational excellence through monitoring, logging, and proactive optimization
- Participate in code reviews, technical reviews, and engineering discussions while providing thoughtful feedback
- Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tooling, and engineering practices
- Mentor and support other engineers through knowledge sharing, technical guidance, and collaboration
- Maintain adherence to secure software development practices and contribute to a strong security culture
- Contribute to engineering planning and adapt to evolving business priorities
Skills
- 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, APIs, or cloud-based platforms
- Strong experience developing backend services using Go (Golang)
- Experience designing and building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs
- Experience developing distributed systems and cloud-native applications
- Experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or another major cloud platform (AWS/GCP)
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, performance optimization, and scalable systems
- Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization standards including OAuth2, JWT, and role-based access control
- Experience implementing production software development best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, and code review processes
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and make thoughtful engineering decisions
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka or Azure Event Hubs
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