Back End Developer

Backend Developer AArete is one-of-a-kind when it comes to consulting firm culture. We’re a global, innovative management and technology consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and India. Our name comes from the Greek word for excellence: “Areté.” And excellence is exactly what we strive for. We’re celebrating our fourth year as one of Forbes’ World’s Best Management Consulting Firms – and our success starts with our people. From robust career development planning to competitive life and wellness

, AArete’s “Culture of Care” takes a holistic approach to the employee experience. AAretians (our team members) are leaders at every level. You are encouraged to unlock your full potential by directly contributing to our mission and prioritizing personal development and fulfillment.

A Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a production backend platform written in Go. This role is responsible for backend APIs, queue-driven services, document-processing workflows, data integrations, and the engineering standards that keep the system reliable, testable, and maintainable. The engineer in this role should be able to move from technical design to implementation to production support while communicating clearly with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders. Work You’ll Do • Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs in Go for a distributed, event-driven platform. • Write clear technical design specs, implementation plans, and engineering documentation before and during delivery. • Own backend architecture decisions across service boundaries, data flow, reliability, performance, and operational readiness. • Build and maintain integrations with core infrastructure such as PostgreSQL, AWS services, object storage, queues, and authentication/authorization systems. • Improve test coverage, debugging practices, observability, and release quality across the backend codebase. • Review code rigorously, provide actionable feedback, and help set a high technical bar for simplicity, correctness, and maintainability. • Communicate effectively with the team on scope, risks, tradeoffs, execution status, and production issues. • Use modern LLM coding harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and similar tools effectively to accelerate engineering velocity while preserving code quality, review discipline, and sound technical judgment. • Other duties as assigned