MacPaw
Senior Back-End Engineer (Setapp)
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Ukraine only
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Found 5h ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Ukraine only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $165k–$225k a year, a typical range taken from 597 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Ukraine. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote job, Kyiv, Ukraine, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Ukraine
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Jira ticket
MacPaw is building the next generation of its Setapp Marketplace —a platform where developers distribute Mac, iOS, and Web applications to a wide audience around the world.
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to build the Ledger and Promotion domains from the ground up. On the Ledger side that means commission terms, revenue splits, and the contracts between developers, sellers, and the platform. On the Promotion side it means coupons, promo codes, redeem codes, and gift cards, and the acquisition and gifting models built on them.
You’ll work with complex business logic, third-party integrations, and existing systems, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. We’re looking for someone curious, proactive, and responsible who enjoys learning, taking ownership, and improving solutions.
Our back-end stack: Go, Temporal, PHP 8.0+ (Symfony Components, Doctrine ORM); PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ; PHPUnit; Cloud-Native: AWS, GCP, K8s, Docker.
In this role, you will:
Own the solution design end to end: take an ambiguous business task, propose how the system should evolve, defend it in a peer design review, and then build it
Model new commercial concepts for Ledger and Promotion capabilities so they stay consistent with the rest of the platform's domain model
Work closely with PMs, EMs, and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, handle edge cases, and find the most effective implementation paths
Gradually refactor and migrate parts of the monolith into independent, high-performance services
Take full responsibility for code quality by writing Unit/Functional tests and actively participating in E2E testing (our engineers drive quality alongside QA)
Write clean, efficient, and scalable code using Go and PHP (Symfony)
Skills you’ll need to bring:
5+ years building production services in Golang
Solution and system design as a primary skill
DDD in practice: bounded contexts, aggregates, when to split a service, and why a shared database isn't a boundary
Confident work with PostgreSQL/relational databases: schema design, complex SQL queries, migrations, and performance optimization (indexes, profiling)
Experience with RabbitMQ (or similar message queues): pub/sub and work queue patterns, producers/consumers, basic configuration concepts
API design: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency keys, error contracts, backward compatibility for public APIs
Go depth: concurrency and graceful shutdown, detecting data races and goroutine leaks, pprof, table-driven testing
Docker, plus working knowledge of Kubernetes objects and probes
CI/CD, feature flags, trunk-based development, safe migrations
Observability: logs, metrics, traces, SLI/SLO/SLA
Awareness of secure coding principles (OWASP)
Requirements
- ·5+ years building production services in Golang
- ·Solution and system design as a primary skill
- ·DDD in practice: bounded contexts, aggregates, when to split a service, and why a shared database isn't a boundary
- ·Confident work with PostgreSQL/relational databases: schema design, complex SQL queries, migrations, and performance optimization (indexes, profiling)
- ·Experience with RabbitMQ (or similar message queues): pub/sub and work queue patterns, producers/consumers, basic configuration concepts
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at MacPaw, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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