Senior Backend Engineer - GoLang (remote - Bulgaria)
Bulgaria
Development – Backend Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
About Us:
Tired of the same old corporate grind? At Consensus, we’re not just another SaaS company—we're a dynamic team on a mission to change how buyers buy and how sellers sell. Your unique perspective isn’t just welcomed; it’s essential. We empower you to bring your authentic self to work and fuel your passion for innovation. Our values aren’t just words on a wall—they’re the heartbeat of our culture. We want you to show up, ready to contribute and grow. Embrace the idea that perfection isn’t the goal; it’s about putting your name on something that’s a “version one” and owning the journey. With our Product Experience Platform, we’re changing the game with tools like product tours, video demos, and product simulations that accelerate deal closures and create engaging buyer experiences. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and contribute to a transformative journey in enterprise software, we want you on our team. Want to see Consensus in action for yourself? Check out our demo.
The Team:
Engineering at Consensus is where collaboration meets innovation. We operate with transparency and foster a blameless culture—mistakes aren’t something to hide; they’re fuel for growth. Solving real customer challenges is at the heart of everything we do, and we believe the best software comes from engineers who think like product owners. Here, your ideas matter, your work drives impact, and every line of code makes a difference.
What You'll Do:
- Apply your skills with GoLang to build high quality, well-tested, scalable and powerful backend services, with emphasis on media processing pipelines and video transcoding workflows
- Design and implement efficient video processing systems using ffmpeg and related media processing libraries
- Build robust concurrent systems leveraging Go's goroutines and channels for parallel media processing
- Work with product managers to flush out requirements and create balanced delivery iterations
- Interact with frontend engineers to help design API contracts to support user workflows, particularly for media upload, processing, and streaming
- Create comprehensive unit tests and work with both manual and automated QA to ensure new features and services work as expected
- Improve the existing codebase to have better and higher quality test coverage
- Collaborate with architects and DevOps to improve overall system design, particularly around media storage and CDN optimization
- Contribute to our architectural roadmap to ensure we have a scalable, performant, maintainable, and secure application
- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers in Go best practices and established patterns
- Debug production systems as needed, including media processing pipeline issues
- Improve the system through better alerting, monitoring, and logging
- Avoid and remove the accrual of technical debt in our systems
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of related experience with backend engineering
- 2+ years of production experience with GoLang
- Strong experience with FFMPEG and media processing workflows (transcoding, encoding, streaming protocols)
- Expert level understanding of GoLang, including deep knowledge of concurrency patterns, goroutines, channels, and the Go runtime
- Experience building video processing pipelines and handling various media formats (MP4, WebM, HLS, etc.)
- Mastery-level understanding of REST and API development with strong skills in building well designed APIs
- Experience with popular Go frameworks and libraries (Gin, Echo, Gorilla, etc.)
- Firm grasp of solid architectural principles for back-end applications
- Well versed in abstraction, encapsulation, interfaces, and other commonly applied Go patterns
- Pragmatic approach to feature development, architectural improvement, and system evolution
- Good understanding of Git and pull request workflows including continuous integration
- Solid understanding and practical experience applying the agile methodology to projects
- Strong skills in the terminal for unix or linux-based operating systems including script writing and command-line tools
- Solid debugging skills and the ability to detect and make performance improvements, particularly in media processing workflows
- Experience with docker, kubernetes or other container-based technologies
- Experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, particularly S3, CloudFront, and Media Services
- Quality-minded, with the ability to elevate others in areas like effective boundary condition testing and test-driven development
- Good communication skills, strong work ethic, and commitment to being accountable for yourself and your team
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Temporal workflow engine for orchestrating complex media processing pipelines
- Experience with eventing frameworks like Kafka
- Knowledge of streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, WebRTC)
- Understanding of video quality metrics and optimization techniques
Join Consensus and enjoy a robust benefits package designed with your well-being in mind:
- 13th salary
- Stock options
- Additional Health Care by Bulstrad
- Social benefits budget that you can spend on the benefits that really work for you
- Food vouchers
- Multisport card
- Metlife life and accident insurane
- Metlife Best doctors insurance
- WFH budget to help you set up a comfortable working station at home
- Company provided best-in-class equipment (we give you the budget and you choose the equipment you want to work with)
- Fully-paid parental leave to prioritize your family
- Maternity leave benefits
- Flexible, friendly and fully remote work environment
- Additional days off
- Every third Friday of the month is off for the whole company
- Professional Development program
- Team buildings and gatherings
