Backend Engineer - Golang
About Luxor
Luxor is the leading software and services provider for Bitcoin miners and the broader compute industry. Our full-stack platform supports gigawatts of compute infrastructure, giving operators the tools to monetize their compute, optimize and trade hardware, access financial instruments, and manage energy.
We believe that compute power is becoming the world’s next major commodity and our products are built to support this shift. Our goal is to become the leaders in harnessing, refining, and trading compute, unlocking a new asset class for the world’s most important digital resource.
As Luxor continues to scale rapidly across software, hardware, financial, energy and cloud infrastructure products, every team member has the opportunity to shape mission-critical systems, influence company-wide strategy, and contribute directly to the future of the compute economy.
Role description
You'll design, build, and maintain backend services in Go for our globally distributed platform. This includes working on mission-critical systems like our Hashrate Marketplace, mining pools, and payment systems, handling high-throughput TCP connections, concurrent workloads, large data volumes, and real-time processing.
You'll participate in architecture decisions, code reviews, and own features end-to-end, including testing, performance, and observability. Our team values quality code, clear thinking, and pragmatic solutions.
This role reports to our Systems Team Engineering Manager. This is a remote role.
Responsibilities
Actively participate during the product design phases, analyzing requirements, and proposing innovative and alternative solutions.
Collaborate on architecture definitions, always thinking of solutions that are scalable and secure.
Develop quality code, with emphasis on correctness of the implementation.
Collaborate in the evolutionary maintenance of the product.
Design, document, automate and execute test plans.
Participate in the process of generating and analyzing features.
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Go, or strong backend experience with enthusiasm to transition to Go.
Strong understanding of software architecture and system design principles.
Solid understanding of concurrency patterns and TCP/networking fundamentals.
Deep expertise in SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design and query optimization.
Experience building and maintaining highly available server-side applications.
Understanding of REST APIs and general API design.
Strong communication skills in English.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).
Experience with payment systems or processing high-volume financial data.
Experience delivering and owning web-scale data systems in production.
Knowledge of blockchain technology or the mining pool industry.
Experience building highly scalable, distributed systems.
Knowledge of GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Experience working with remote teams.
The ideal candidate
Passionate about cryptocurrency and public-blockchain technologies.
Has an interest in creating an entirely new market with Hashrate (compute power) as a commodity.
Has an interest in thinking and evolving the architecture of our software to make it robust and maintainable.
Enjoys writing code and pushing boundaries of what has been done so far.
Brings fun to the team but can also go down the rabbit hole to push quality code on schedule.
At Luxor we believe that meaningful contributions can be made by anyone. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Luxor welcomes all!
Luxor does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Luxor will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Luxor.