Backend 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 benefits, 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. 

The Role

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

Requirements

• 8 or more years of professional backend engineering experience, including significant production experience in Go/Golang.
• Deep expertise in designing and shipping backend APIs, asynchronous workers, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with relational databases, API contracts, integration patterns, and production debugging.
• Demonstrated ability to write design documents, break work into implementation plans, and lead delivery of backend features end to end.
• Strong understanding of testing strategy, code review, CI/CD, and operational excellence in production systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate well across engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Proven ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools productively and responsibly, especially LLM-based coding environments and agentic coding workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Cognito, and related cloud-native backend patterns.
• Experience with OpenAPI, generated clients or servers, background job pipelines, and document-processing systems.
• Experience working in a codebase with strong quality expectations around reliability, observability, security, and test coverage.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off of up to 23 days annually, in addition to 10 paid public holidays
• Hybrid work model with flexible in-office attendance
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical insurance (Mediclaim), personal accident insurance, and term life insurance
• Generous paid parental leave program
• Attractive employee referral bonus scheme
• Transportation allowance and night shift allowance
• Employee advance salary loan facility
• Structured professional certification reimbursement policy to support ongoing learning and development.

AArete will accept applications until the position is filled. The job posting will be removed once the role is no longer available. 

We put humans at the center of our work 

We’re a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in strategic profitability improvement, digital transformation, and strategy & change for clients. Our cross-industry solutions are powered by a digital-first mindset, market intelligence, and data-driven approach to deliver purposeful change, actionable insights, and guaranteed results. 

But what sets us apart is our people. We are guided by our deeply embedded guiding principles: Excellence, Passion, Loyalty to Clients, Stewardship, Family, Community, Sustainability, and Inclusion.  

And we’ve been recognized as a top firm to work for by companies like Forbes, Top Workplaces Chicago Tribune, and Consulting Magazine.  

We’ve earned a Great Place to Work Certification™ and been named a World’s Best Management Consulting Firm by Forbes, Vault’s Top 50 Firms to Work For, Crain's Chicago Business Fast 50, Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Firms, and Consulting Magazine's Fastest Growing Firms.  

Learn more about our award-winning culture 

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