Intermediate Software Engineer (GoLang)

About Dotwork:

Dotwork is building an intelligent platform for strategic planning and operational execution — a system that helps leaders gain real-time situational awareness and connected insights. As a Software Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in advancing the backend of our platform, contributing to scalable services and infrastructure that power both frontend and backend experiences.

Role Overview:

You’ll join the Dotwork core platform engineering team to build and optimize platform components — from data pipelines and APIs to integrations with Dgraph and cloud-native services. You'll also support DevOps efforts, helping ensure efficient deployment and operations across our cloud environments.

You will work directly on customer problems, crafting interactive, tailored solutions built on the Dotwork platform - specifically focused on mission-critical strategy operations, planning, and tracking for large, innovative organizations. Many of which are household names.

Technologies:

• Backend: GoLang, Dgraph, gRPC, NATS, Postgres
• DevOps/Cloud: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, and maintain high-performance backend services to power Dotwork’s strategic planning and analytics platform.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, ensuring seamless integration between backend systems and user-facing applications.
• Optimize data models and queries in Dgraph and Postgres to support complex application requirements.
• Drive performance improvements and eliminate bottlenecks across services and infrastructure.
• Contribute to infrastructure and DevOps processes to streamline deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Raise the quality bar
• Prototype and iterate quickly, responding to internal and customer feedback.
• Partner with Product and Design teams to turn ideas into impactful features.

Ideal Candidate:

• GoLang Expertise – Proven experience building performant, scalable backend systems and platform-level components in Go.
• Performance and Reliability Mindset — **** You have experience ensuring services are maintainable, reliable and performant
• Database Proficiency – Experience querying and modeling data in graph and relational databases (Dgraph, Postgres).
• DevOps Mindset – Familiarity with cloud-native operations, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
• High Quality Standards – Strong testing, debugging, and CI/CD practices; you care about shipping clean, reliable code.
• Communication – Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate complex topics clearly.
• Execution-Focused – You thrive in fast-paced, agile environments and care deeply about delivering value over perfection.
• Curiosity & Purpose – Motivated by the opportunity to improve how organizations execute strategy and make decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of backend development experience in Go (or other backend languages like Java or .NET).
• Experience with gRPC, NATS, or other messaging/event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., ECS, RDS, CloudWatch, S3) or GCP equivalents.
• Experience supporting analytics dashboards or data visualization tools.
• Background in building collaborative software, productivity tools, or enterprise SaaS products.
• Command of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code and modern cloud environments.

What We Offer:

• A unique opportunity to merge deep technical expertise with strategic, customer-focused product development.
• The chance to use cutting-edge AI tools daily, both in your personal workflow and integrated customer solutions.
• A collaborative and visionary culture where we want everyone to feel they’re doing the most challenging, but best work of their careers.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and a flexible work environment.