{"id":44381,"date":"2025-11-15T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/job\/toggl-senior-backend-engineer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:19:43","slug":"toggl-senior-backend-engineer","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/job\/toggl-senior-backend-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Toggl: Senior Backend Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remote Jobs<\/p>\n<p>Region: Anywhere in the World<\/p>\n<p>State: Harjumaa (Tallinn)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/we-work-remotely.imgix.net\/logos\/0074\/7274\/logo.gif?ixlib=rails-4.0.0&#038;w=50&#038;h=50&#038;dpr=2&#038;fit=fill&#038;auto=compress\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> Tallinn, Estonia<br \/>\n    <br \/><strong>URL:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/toggl.com\/jobs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/toggl.com\/jobs\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>We are looking for experienced Senior Backend Engineers who bring unique skills to our team and help us shape the future of the time tracking industry.<\/p>\n<p>The salary for this position is <strong>\u20ac80,000<\/strong> annually.<\/p>\n<p>You can work <strong>from anywhere in the world as long as your main location is between UTC-4 and UTC+8.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Our team meetings are scheduled between 11:00 and 16:00 UTC. Your availability and commitment to participate in these sessions are essential for effective collaboration and team alignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are a global team of 140+ awesome people working from over 40 countries around the globe. We hire globally, you work locally \u2014 in the heart of London, a beach outside of R\u00edo de Janeiro, or a quiet village near Florence, the choice is yours. Every few months we travel to meet up somewhere in the world and spend some quality time together. We place a huge amount of trust in our people, and we measure the outcomes rather than the work itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/toggl.com\/culture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Our values<\/a> fuel our results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be taking ownership of one or more domains of our product and will work closely with other Backend and Frontend engineers using cutting-edge open source frameworks to develop highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems.<\/p>\n<p>The main technologies you will be working with are <strong>Go, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your main responsibilities will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>developing, scaling and maintaining some of our backend services including the API, reports and other infrastructure services that manage our product and logistics worldwide<\/li>\n<li>working with multiple teams day to day to bring more value to Toggl\u2019s users, covering customer-facing web and native applications and public APIs<\/li>\n<li>designing, breaking down, and completing projects of a medium to large scope with high-level productivity<\/li>\n<li>looking for technical problems of existing system\/product without guidance and offering solutions<\/li>\n<li>leading projects with a small group of people, such as hosting weekly meetings, communicating with other partners and stakeholders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear from you if you strive to solve technical problems of high scope and complexity and have long-standing experience programming in Go.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, we are looking for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strong backend engineering experience in Go<\/li>\n<li>Significant professional experience with distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)<\/li>\n<li>Experience with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems<\/li>\n<li>Ability to work cross-teams and improve cross-functional relationships which will facilitate ongoing projects<\/li>\n<li>Effective communication skills, ensuring regular consensus with peers and clear status updates.<\/li>\n<li>Strong collaboration skills across the company to define, design, build, and improve the product.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with data warehouse, analytics systems, Kubernetes at scale, and system architecture at scale.<\/li>\n<li>Eagerness to contribute to the engineering team&#8217;s growth, including interviewing and mentoring junior engineers, and providing precise, actionable feedback to peers.<\/li>\n<li>Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is required for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom to choose when and how much you work &#8211; 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